Offshore

Quick meaning: Offshore is an adjective meaning Moving away from the shore.

Meaning

Moving away from the shore.

More Meanings

1. Located in the sea away from the coast.
2. Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs.
3. Away from the shore.
4. At some distance from the shore.
5. An area of or portion of sea away from the shore.
6. An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.
7. (transitive) To move industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, in order to seek lower business costs, such as labor.

Example Sentences

an offshore oil rig

American companies use offshore services for one reason, said Herbert F. Schantz, a consultant in Sterling, Va.: cheap labor.

The McKinsey Global Institute says that 750,000 American service jobs have been “offshored” out of total U.S. jobs of about 140 million.

It begins with the anodyne name for the procedures — “offshore processing” — as if these desperate human beings were just an accumulation of data.

Word Forms

• off-shore
• offshores
• offshoring
• offshored

Antonyms for offshore

Common opposites include onshore, inshore, seaward.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sea, off-site, outlying, off, outside, abroad.

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