Offshore

/ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/ · adjective

Meaning

Moving away from the shore..

Definitions by Sense

1. Moving away from the shore.
2. Located in the sea away from the coast.
3. Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs.
4. Away from the shore.
5. At some distance from the shore.
6. (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.
7. An area of or portion of sea away from the shore.
8. An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.

Example Sentences

an offshore oil rig

Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with the off-shore islands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fujian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993.

The judges said that the right to a clean environment did not bar the government from drilling for offshore oil, and that Norway did not legally carry the responsibility for emissions stemming from oil it has exported.

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

With pressure building in Europe and the United States for a systemwide crackdown on offshore tax havens —the Caymans prefer to call themselves a tax-neutral portal Britain appears determined to make an example of a place that has become a symbol of secrecy and intrigue.

Moving the prisoners is an indispensable step toward closing an extra-legal offshore lockup that has stained this nation’s reputation and become a recruitment tool for terrorists.

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

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

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• off-shore
• offshores
• offshoring
• offshored

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