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onshored

onshored is the simple past and past participle of onshore.

Meaning of onshore

Verb

onshore (third-person singular simple present onshores, present participle onshoring, simple past and past participle onshored)

  1. 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...2023 February 8, Derek Thompson, “Don’t ‘Buy American’”, in The Atlantic

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Questions about onshored

What is onshored the simple past and past participle of?
Onshored is the simple past and past participle of onshore.

Words near onshored in the dictionary

  1. onsetters
  2. onsetting
  3. onsettings
  4. onshell
  5. onshore
  6. onshored
  7. onshores
  8. onshoring
  9. onside
  10. onside kick
  11. onside kicks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onshored (page history and authors); onshore (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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