offshore
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English off-
English shore
English offshore
From off- + shore.
Inflected forms:
form: off-shore
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: off-shore
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: offshores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: offshoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: offshored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: offshored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: off-shore
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: offshores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: off-shore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Moving away from the shore.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Located in the sea away from the coast.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Away from the shore.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: At some distance from the shore.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The McKinsey Global Institute says that 750,000 American service jobs have been “offshored” out of total U.S. jobs of about 140 million.
India has become the leading destination for offshored services.
Corporations offshore their production, because they can more cheaply produce abroad what they sell to Americans. When corporations bring their offshored production to the U.S. to sell, the goods count as imports.
gloss: An area of or portion of sea away from the shore.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.
pos: noun
examples: The Nationalists see that they have nothing to gain—in fact, a lot to lose—by hanging onto the offshores as military bases.
gloss: Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country.
pos: noun
examples: If costs are unequally imposed by governments on their offshores, the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive.
Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican "braceros" and Caribbean "offshores," as the workers were called.
Related words: deep-sea
inshore
nearshore
noshore
onshore
reshore
Derived words: offshorable
offshorer
offshore seahorse
offshorization
right-shore
right-shoring
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