Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "off-shore".
Trappers, shrimpers, farmers, and off-shore oil workers congregated--talking, spitting, gesturing and laughing.
Jersey, my dear Turkin, may be small, but it is very possibly the most important off-shore finance base in the world.
This clothing served as a uniform for The Watchmen in training, but also made plausible working gear for them in their secondary roles as drillers, rig mechanics, floormen, roustabouts and other categories of occupation aboard the drillship half a mile off-shore.
California, beginning with the seaweed that floated off-shore, working their way through the mussel-beds and crab-flats of the intertidal zone, chewing tunnels into the scrub that clung to the beach-edge and perpetrating massacres of animals and birds.
Off-shore oil rigs and dams, vertol terminals and apartment complexes—.
The only distinctive feature anywhere to be seen was an island to the north-east, about a mile off-shore.
They would lie off-shore during the night, and the following day until the battle was decided.
Off-shore there was a mile-wide belt of loose pressure ice - the season was not yet far enough advanced for the fantastic shapes it would assume in the early spring -streaked with open, ever-changing leads and dotted at rare intervals with small icebergs - probably ones that had broken off from the east coast, drifted south round Cape Farewell and then moved north again, the whole half-lost, unearthly, and impossibly, weirdly, continuously altered in configuration by the white drifting fog that hung miasma-like over the sea.
The doctor appears to be sending a great deal of money into off-shore tax shelters.
It was one of the off-shore fishers and accommodated a fair number of folk: an orderly descent was made by those whom Curran had apparently ticked off as audience to this momentous occasion.