OFFSHORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does offshore mean? 

• OFFSHORE (adjective)
  The adjective OFFSHORE has 2 senses:

1. (of winds) coming from the land

2. at some distance from the shore

  Familiarity information: OFFSHORE used as an adjective is rare.

• OFFSHORE (adverb)
  The adverb OFFSHORE has 1 sense:

1. away from shore; away from land

  Familiarity information: OFFSHORE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OFFSHORE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of winds) coming from the land

Synonyms:

offshore; seaward

Context example:

offshore winds

Antonym:

inshore ((of winds) coming from the sea toward the land)

Sense 2

Meaning:

At some distance from the shore

Context example:

an offshore island

Similar:

marine (relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea)

• OFFSHORE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Away from shore; away from land

Context example:

cruising three miles offshore

Antonym:

onshore (on or toward the land)

 Context examples 

The cable stretches 52 kilometers offshore to the first seismic station on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, placed 17 years ago.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

Knowledge of offshore strain accumulation and release processes is critical to understanding shallow-water earthquakes and tsunamis.

(Geoscientists develop technology to improve forecasting of earthquakes, tsunamis, National Science Foundation)

The melting is affected by a large area of open ocean in front of the ice shelf that is empty of sea ice due to strong offshore winds.

(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The offshore reefs provide habitat and feeding grounds for large numbers of fish, including top predators such as sharks and groupers.

(Microbes reflect the health of coral reefs, National Science Foundation)

An offshore company in which a U.S. person owns 10 percent or more of a foreign corporation or in which 50 percent or more of the total voting stock is owned by U.S. shareholders collectively or 10 percent or more of the voting control is owned by U.S. persons which is treated by the IRS as a U.S. tax reporting entity.

(Controlled Foreign Corporation, NCI Thesaurus)

Fiber-optic cables in a global undersea telecommunications network could one day help scientists study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures hidden deep beneath the ocean surface.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

They found a notable difference between more impacted nearshore reefs in the Florida Keys and the heavily protected offshore reefs in Cuba such as Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen), the largest protected area in the Caribbean, located about 50 miles off the southern coast of Cuba.

(Microbes reflect the health of coral reefs, National Science Foundation)