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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
offshore
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an offshore island
▪ The turtles lay their eggs on the beaches of offshore islands.
offshore oil (=found under the sea, not far from the coast)
▪ The company has the technical capabilities to produce offshore oil.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
account
▪ Whether a local or offshore account suits you better depends on how you plan to use your account.
▪ Nationwide Overseas has cut interest rates on its offshore accounts by 0.9%.
▪ Cheshire, Skipton and Derbyshire building societies are among those that run offshore accounts and tend to pay attractive rates of interest.
▪ She wanted to change her offshore account at the Abbey National to a different account at the same bank.
▪ And, of course, you can win on both counts if you pick a top-paying offshore account.
▪ For expatriates with offshore accounts, this represents a decent tax-free return on an investment that carries no risk to capital.
bank
▪ A review of offshore banks was also started and was expected to lead to several banks losing their licences to operate.
▪ For a good ways more, Collymore sailed onward to the offshore banks and then anchored.
▪ The first place for income-seeking expatriates to start is in the offshore bank and building society market.
▪ The table below shows the best deals currently available from offshore banks and building societies.
▪ On the eve of shooting, the co-production partner - an offshore bank - withdrew from the project.
centres
▪ It says that in many offshore centres, dishonest savers and investors are using laws on client confidentiality to hide shady practices.
▪ At the private investor level, the use of offshore centres is almost limitless.
▪ Even private investors of modest means can use offshore centres for tax referral.
▪ Needless to say, the use of offshore centres is never far from being a controversial matter.
▪ This is an area in which traditional offshore centres are still paramount.
▪ For expatriates living in these offshore centres this is more than simply an international row.
▪ The voluntary code, which will cover offshore centres, has no provisions for sanctions or enforcement checks.
▪ However, there is nothing to suggest that offshore centres are declining in importance.
company
▪ All plans are offered with guaranteed clean title in offshore companies.
▪ That's why we're an offshore company.
▪ Alternatively, the cost of the development work could be charged to an offshore company on a cost plus basis.
▪ Does he want to know that Krupat and I fiddled the tax authorities by buying a holiday house through an offshore company?
deposit
▪ Interest rates on offshore deposits exceed those on comparable domestic deposits because offshore deposits are not subject to reserve requirements.
▪ People hold domestic deposits despite the higher interest rate on offshore deposits because they associate greater political risk with offshore deposits.
▪ The period-to-period growth in offshore deposits at times has been highly variable relative to the growth in domestic deposits.
funds
▪ Most offshore funds are domiciled in Guernsey, Dublin or Luxembourg.
▪ More than 100 offshore funds pay an income in sterling.
▪ Strictly, these are offshore funds without distributor status.
industry
▪ Even so, many expatriates are put off the offshore industry by its reputation for shady practices.
▪ This is the kind of scam for which the offshore industry is notorious.
▪ The offshore industry has trained a handful of apprentices, but these do not compare with its labour requirements.
▪ It is important that we accept that the central thrust of the measure is about the offshore industry.
▪ We must provide a framework for an enduring safety regime for the offshore industry.
investment
▪ Island authorities are keen to take advantage of their position as a self-governing Crown protectorate to attract offshore investment funds.
▪ You need to be careful about hidden charges when contemplating an offshore investment.
island
▪ Elephant seals have started hauling out on mainland beaches in southern California because their offshore island breeding grounds have become too crowded.
▪ Choughs are known to breed on Pembrokeshire cliffs in lonely caves and fissures, and on offshore islands.
▪ Tempting little offshore islands, washed by warm blue seas - it seemed almost too good to be true!
oil
▪ Significant economic growth and social change has been brought about as a result of the offshore oil and gas industry.
▪ Ranchers, lumber companies, and offshore oil drillers pay fees to the government for their use of public lands and waters.
▪ Conoco is a pioneer in offshore oil and gas development.
▪ By the late 1980s, she also directed an offshore oil project and a rice marketing network.
▪ An important environmental application is the cleaning of oily water in the offshore oil industry.
▪ I asked under what circumstances dispensations from the health and safety regulations were given by the Department to offshore oil companies.
▪ During the year, we have worked in almost all major offshore oil provinces worldwide.
▪ At Winfrith, a range of skills developed for nuclear modelling and inspection were adapted for use by the offshore oil industry.
wind
▪ You should never sail in an offshore wind, particularly not alone.
▪ Steady offshore winds keep blowing the water westward where it becomes heated.
▪ The government has responded by planning offshore wind farms on the Ijsselmeer.
▪ At the moment, only inshore wind farms have been erected but there is great potential in offshore wind.
▪ Large swell waves may be present with an absolutely calm sea or even with light offshore winds in the opposite direction.
▪ Avoid strong tides, offshore winds, poor visibility or sailing in the dark.
▪ This is an essential skill in gusty offshore winds.
▪ When sailing in offshore winds, however, this rule is more often than not proved right, particularly in coastal bays.
worker
▪ No convincing reason has been given for treating onshore and offshore workers differently - often by the same company.
▪ An offshore worker has presented me with a detailed file containing his experiences as a safety representative.
▪ That is another argument for the clarification of how offshore workers should go about securing trade union rights and recognition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ offshore fishing
▪ offshore oil reserves
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Conoco also disclosed it has started a review of offshore maintenance operations could lead to a jobs rundown.
▪ Hamilton has estimated that these two projects and the offshore development will create some 3,000 construction jobs and over 200 permanent jobs.
▪ More than 100 offshore funds pay an income in sterling.
▪ Most are offshore financial centres also targeted by international watchdogs for loose banking regulation and harmful tax practices.
▪ Needless to say, the use of offshore centres is never far from being a controversial matter.
▪ People hold domestic deposits despite the higher interest rate on offshore deposits because they associate greater political risk with offshore deposits.
▪ The coupling of this offshore subsidence and onshore uplift will induce a flexure of the margin which will accentuate uplift inland.
▪ To enable waves to break some distance offshore it is necessary that the offshore profile should possess a very gentle gradient.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offshore

Offshore \Off"shore"\, a.

  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.

Wiktionary
offshore

  1. 1 Moving away from the shore. 2 Located in the sea away from the coast. 3 Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws. adv. 1 Away from the shore. 2 At some distance from the shore. alt. 1 Moving away from the shore. 2 Located in the sea away from the coast. 3 Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws. v

  2. To use foreign labour to substitute for local labour.

WordNet
offshore

  1. adj. (of winds) coming from the land; "offshore winds" [ant: inshore]

  2. at some distance from the shore; "offshore oil reserves"; "an offshore island"

  3. adv. away from shore; away from land; "cruising three miles offshore" [ant: onshore]

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Wikipedia
Offshore

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Offshore (novel)

Offshore (1979) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. It won the Booker Prize for that year. It recalls her time spent on boats on the Thames in Battersea. The novel explores the liminality of people who do not belong to the land or the sea, but are somewhere in between. The epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue" ("whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues") comes from Canto XI of Dante's Inferno.

Offshore (hydrocarbons)

"Offshore", when used relative to hydrocarbons, refers to an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under the sea, or to activities or operations carried out in relation to such a field. There are various types of platform used in the development of offshore oil and gas fields, and subsea facilities.

Offshore exploration is performed with floating drilling units.

Offshore (album)

Offshore is the fifth full-length album by Early Day Miners, released in 2006 on Secretly Canadian Records. Offshore is a continuous six-song exploration of the musical and lyrical themes presented in the band's song "Offshore", from their 2002 album Let Us Garlands Bring.

Offshore (song)

"Offshore" is a song by British electronic dance music artist Chicane. It was released as his debut single from the album Far from the Maddening Crowds on 2 December 1996. The song reached #5 in the United States on Billboards Hot Dance Club Songs chart, #12 in Ireland and #14 in the United Kingdom.

A bootleg by Australian DJ Anthony Pappa was given an official release in 1997 titled "Offshore '97". This version peaked at #17 in the UK.

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Usage examples of "offshore".

As long as he was stunned by his sighting, as long as they could keep him fascinated by the possibility that a mermaid lurked offshore, they might be able to either push or pull him where they pleased.

He ordered all press of sail, and with the winds whistling through the rigging and the little ship straining to the smashing seas, did his best to outspeed disease, sighting the long line of surf-washed Aleutian Islands in September, coasting from headland to headland, keeping well offshore for fear of reefs till the end of the month, when compelled to turn in to the mid-bay of Oonalaska for water.

Dog-shit offshore rig puking your guts out over the side after eating a big sweet ham that the cooking steward had been screwing all month.

I found my shoe and carefully picked my way across the rocky shore toward the skiff, which was just offshore under a large underhang of rock.

Still, I suppose in the unfished offshore waters a few of the large forms survive.

The first vinta had reached the group and was standing only a few feet offshore.

Duckett read on to the paragraph directing Allentown north to Warplan Station Number One, directly offshore from Severomorsk Naval Complex in Russian waters.

The message would be further relayed by the command back in Little Creek to the Navy, and finally back to the Archerfish offshore.

From the patrol line a few miles offshore the DE sailors could watch the big transports approaching the airstrip at Biak, some of them towing boxy-looking troop gliders which they cut loose to angle down and disappear behind the trees.

She was crewed by a family of Dayaks from one of the offshore rigs, an old woman with four sons.

A man could be swept out to sea from one section of the shore, while a hundred yards away children cavorted in the diminishing waves without noticing the slightest tug from the current The unrelenting force of a rip current occurs when the longshore flow returns to the sea through narrow, stormgrooved valleys in offshore sandbars.

RIB boat five Marines, two merchant mariners, the foreign office adviser and me miles north of Diego Garcia checking the offshore islands in the Chagos Archipelago for yachts or any Russian or Mauritian ships illegally taking the fish off the coral reefs in British territorial waters.

There are the Muong Song pirates on some offshore islands, as well as a small colony recently established by people from Boradu on an island continent a few degrees south of the equator, but the Democratic Republic of Elneal is the only body politic.

The coastline ran generally northeastward, and for much of its distance, offshore islands and bars formed a naturally protected waterway, as if God had meant to make his exploration safe from the whims of the unruly sea.

It takes a long time for cement to cure in the tropics, and the artifact stayed floating offshore, shrouded, for two weeks while the thick slab, laced with rebar, slowly hardened.