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onshore

/ˈɒnʃɔː/ Eastern New England, New Zealand, UK
/ˈɔnʃoɹ/
/ˈɑnʃoɹ/ Northern US, cot caught merger
[ˈɒːnʃoɹ ~ ˈɔːnʃoɹ] Canada
/ˈɔnʃoː/ Australia

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From on + shore.

adjective on-shore

not comparable Moving from the sea towards the land. an onshore breeze
not comparable Positioned on or near the shore. Princeton University's Center for Environmental Studies recommended today that New Jersey minimize adverse impacts of offshore drilling by limiting to the Atlantic City area any onshore bases built to support and supply oil rigs in the ocean.
not comparable Within the country; not overseas. By this measure, it was only the second largest onshore leak in the US last year, surpassed by one near San Antonio, Texas in March which discharged 147 tonnes of methane an hour.

adverb more onshore · most onshore · on-shore

From the sea towards the land. Like most storms, Hurricane Katrina weakened as it came onshore, and by Monday evening the National Hurricane Center had downgraded it to a tropical storm.

verb onshores · onshoring · onshored · on-shore

To relocate production, services or jobs to lower-cost locations in the same country. I don’t want to suggest that any attempt to onshore production will doom America to runaway costs, supply-chain catastrophes, and frayed global alliances. In many cases, I’m sure there are brilliant reasons to bring back more advanced manufacturing, clean-energy construction, and resource production

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: seaward, inshore, land, landward, nearshore, coast, shoreline, seashore, shore, coastal, ashore, beached, ground, dirt, soil, earthly

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@misc{onshore_2026,
  title = {onshore},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/onshore},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}