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Offshore   Listen
adjective
Offshore  adj.  
1.
From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.
2.
Located in the waters near the shore; as, offshore drilling.
3.
Operating or located in a foreign country; as, an offshore bank account; offshore mutual funds.





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"Offshore" Quotes from Famous Books



... rickety little wharf like a hyphen to link the grit with the salt. Down to the outer tip of the wharf ran a narrow-gauge track of rusted iron rails, and over the track on occasion plied little straddlebug handcars. Because the water offshore was shoal ships could not come in very close but must lie well out in the lagoon and their unloadings and their reloadings were carried on by means of whale-boats ferrying back and forth between ship side and dock ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... marine may be defined as all ships engaged in the carriage of goods; or all commercial vessels (as opposed to all nonmilitary ships), which excludes tugs, fishing vessels, offshore oil rigs, etc.; or a grouping of merchant ships by nationality or register. This entry contains information in two subfields - total and ships by type. Total includes the total number of ships (1,000 GRT or over), total DWT ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... business under discussion happened to be Barney's, but it would have been inexpedient for him to attend the meeting in person. Waiting for his associates to wind up the matter, he was passing time by studying an old man who was fishing from a small boat offshore, a hundred yards or so below the road. After a while the old fellow brought the boat in, appeared a few minutes later along the empty lane carrying his tackle and an apparently empty gunny sack, and trudged unheedingly past the automobile and its occupant. As he went by, Barney ...
— Gone Fishing • James H. Schmitz
... captain and Anthony, having reached a place offshore which promised a good catch, put out their lines and entered at once upon that ecstatic state of watchfulness which is the heritage of ...
— Glory of Youth • Temple Bailey
... has been pleased to like this extravaganza better than anything I have written. Personally I prefer "The Offshore Pirate." But, to tamper slightly with Lincoln: If you like this sort of thing, this, possibly, is the ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... to carry us swung at the buoy a quarter of a mile offshore, and there were row-boats waiting to take us to her. She was a brig of some 120 tons burthen, and as we came under the stern I saw her name ...
— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner


Words linked to "Offshore" :   seaward, inshore, onshore, marine, offshore rig


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