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offshore
- /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
adjective off-shore
- Moving away from the shore. Michael De Santa (Ned Luke): Oh, it's horrible. You (Devin Weston) wouldn't want to be sent offshore (pun) just to save a little money, would you, T (Trevor Philips)?
- Located in the sea away from the coast. an offshore oil rig
- Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs. American companies use offshore services for one reason, said Herbert F. Schantz, a consultant in Sterling, Va.: cheap labor.
adverb off-shore
- Away from the shore.
- At some distance from the shore.
verb offshores · offshoring · offshored · off-shore
- 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. The McKinsey Global Institute says that 750,000 American service jobs have been “offshored” out of total U.S. jobs of about 140 million.
noun offshores · off-shore
- An area of or portion of sea away from the shore. This problem, so far as the offshores of the United States is concerned, is one that is eminently worthy of the attention of the United States Fish Commission and the support of Congress in its attempt to solve it.
- An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore. The Nationalists see that they have nothing to gain—in fact, a lot to lose—by hanging onto the offshores as military bases.
- Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country. If costs are unequally imposed by governments on their offshores, the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: sea, off-site, outlying, off, outside, abroad, outer, overseas, expatriate, long-range, long-distance, foreign, foreigner, broad-based, wide, broad
Translations
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adj moving away from the shore
| Español | alejándose de la costa |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | ablandig |
adj located in the sea away from the coast
| Español | mar adentro, en ultramar, en altamar, costa afuera |
|---|---|
| Français | offshore, au large |
| Deutsch | offshore |
| Ελληνικά | αρόδου aródou |
| עברית | ימי yami |
adj located in another country
| Español | deslocalizado, extraterritorial, en el extranjero, fuera de país, offshore |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 역외 yeogoe, 해외 hae'oe |
| 日本語 | オフショア ofushoa, 海外での kaigai de no |
| 中文 | 離岸 /离岸 lí'àn, 濱外 /滨外 bīnwài, 國外 /国外 guówài |
| Français | offshore |
| Deutsch | Off-Shore- |
| Ελληνικά | εξωχώριος exochórios |
| Русский | офшо́рный ofšórnyj |
adv away from the shore
| Español | alejado de la costa |
|---|---|
| Italiano | al largo |
| Ελληνικά | αρόδου aródou |
| Русский | в откры́том мо́ре v otkrýtom móre |
adv at some distance from the shore
| Español | lejos de la costa |
|---|---|
| Italiano | al largo |
| Ελληνικά | αρόδου aródou |
verb to use foreign labor to substitute for local labor
| Español | deslocalizar, extraterritorializar |
|---|---|
| Português | deslocalizar |
| Français | délocaliser |
| Italiano | delocalizzare |
Talk about this word "offshore." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/offshore. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. offshore. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/offshore "offshore." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/offshore.Cite this
@misc{offshore_2026,
title = {offshore},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/offshore},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
