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off-shore

off-shore is the alternative form of offshore.

Meaning of offshore

Adjective

offshore (not comparable)

  1. Moving away from the shore.
  2. Located in the sea away from the coast.
    • an offshore oil rig
  3. 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.2000 June 15, Lisa Guernsey, “Offshore Scanners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2018

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Questions about off-shore

What is off-shore the alternative form of?
Off-shore is the alternative form of offshore.

Words near off-shore in the dictionary

  1. off-seasons
  2. off-set
  3. off-sets
  4. off-setting
  5. off-shoot
  6. off-shore
  7. off-shoulder
  8. off-side
  9. off-side rule
  10. off-site
  11. off-slip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: off-shore (page history and authors); offshore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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