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Offshore   /ˈɔfʃˈɔr/   Listen
Offshore

adjective
1.
(of winds) coming from the land.  Synonym: seaward.
2.
At some distance from the shore.  "An offshore island"



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"Offshore" Quotes from Famous Books



... stiff sea on the bar where a strong ebb-tide ran in the teeth of the summer sea-breeze. But the Japanese were cautious. Their thirty- and forty-thousand-ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles offshore and manoeuvred in ponderous evolutions, while tiny scout-boats (lean, six-funnelled destroyers) ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks. But, compared with the Energon, they were leviathans. Compared ...
— Revolution and Other Essays • Jack London
... on with the pilot boat, Rusty, which I understand meets the Mauretania about eight or ten miles offshore. There won't be any chance on the wharfboat. But that gives me a good idea—however, it doesn't seem right to make the Duke of Alva waste his hard-earned coin on wireless messages. There's no free list with ...
— The Ghost Breaker - A Novel Based Upon the Play • Charles Goddard


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


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