Definitions for offshore

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offshore off·shore

Spelling: [awf-shawr, -shohr, of-]

IPA: /ˈɔfˈʃɔr, -ˈʃoʊr, ˈɒf-/

Offshore is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in offshore (effhoors).

Definitions for offshore

adverb

1. off or away from the shore:
2. at a distance from the shore, on a body of water:
3. in a foreign country.

adjective

1. moving or tending away from the shore toward or into a body of water:
2. located or operating on a body of water, at some distance from the shore:
3. registered, located, conducted, or operated in a foreign country:

Origin of offshore

First recorded in 1710-20; off + shore¹

Examples for offshore

On Thursday, the relief effort intensified with the arrival of an American aircraft carrier group just offshore.

It is important also just offshore from Audierne, Douarnenez, and Camaret.

It made no more impression upon him than if he had been an offshore buoy.

But when modern-day conservationists surveyed the offshore rocks they discovered something even more ethereal lurking within.

It was built in Norway and is classed as an offshore support vessel.

The shampooer's whistles drifted out on the offshore breeze.

Our protective oceans mean that likely conflict is offshore.

Churchill then decided to embark on a British cruiser, the Belfast, and watch the landings from offshore.

The wind was offshore, and by the morning I was out of sight of the French coast.

For centuries, offshore rocks, strong surf, and dense fog have cursed boats landing and launching in the Atlantic.