offshore

See also:off-shore

English

Alternative forms

• off-shore

Etymology

Fromoff-+‎shore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• Rhymes:-ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

offshore(notcomparable)

1. Moving away from theshore.
2. Located in theseaaway from thecoast.

   anoffshoreoil rig

   • 1992,Richard Louis Edmonds, edited by Graham P. Chapman and Kathleen M. Baker,The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau(The Changing Geography of Asia)‎^[1],Routledge,→ISBN,→OCLC,→OL,page160:

     Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with theoff-shoreislands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fu gian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993.

   • 2020December 22, Henrik Pryser Libell, Derrick Bryson Taylor, “Norway’s Supreme Court Makes Way for More Arctic Drilling”, inThe New York Times‎^[2],→ISSN:

     The judges said that the right to a clean environment did not bar the government from drilling foroffshoreoil, and that Norway did not legally carry the responsibility for emissions stemming from oil it has exported.

3. Located in anothercountry,especially one having beneficialtaxlaws or labor costs.
   • 2000June 15, Lisa Guernsey, “Offshore Scanners”, inThe New York Times‎^[3],→ISSN:

     American companies useoffshoreservices for one reason, said Herbert F. Schantz, a consultant in Sterling, Va.: cheap labor.

   • 2009October 3, Landon Thomas Jr, “Offshore Haven Considers a Heresy: Taxation”, inThe New York Times‎^[4],→ISSN:

     With pressure building in Europe and the United States for a systemwide crackdown onoffshoretax havens —the Caymans prefer to call themselves a tax-neutral portal Britain appears determined to make an example of a place that has become a symbol of secrecy and intrigue.

   • 2009December 18, “Guantánamo Must Be Closed”, inThe New York Times‎^[5],→ISSN:

     Moving the prisoners is an indispensable step toward closing an extra-legaloffshorelockup that has stained this nation’s reputation and become a recruitment tool for terrorists.

   • 2016May 23, Roger Cohen, “Australia’s Offshore Cruelty”, inThe New York Times‎^[6],→ISSN:

     It begins with the anodyne name for the procedures — “offshoreprocessing” — as if these desperate human beings were just an accumulation of data.

Derived terms

• offshore seahorse

Translations

moving away from the shore

• Finnish:merelle suuntautuva
• German:ablandig(de)
• Macedonian:движење далеку од брегот(dviženje daleku od bregot)
• Maori:whakawaho
• Marathi:किनारापार(kinārāpār),किनाऱ्यापासून दूर(kināryāpāsūn dūr)
• Spanish:alejándosedelacosta

located in the sea away from the coast

• Dutch:buiten de kust
• French:offshore(fr),au large(fr)
• German:offshore(de)
• Greek:αρόδου(el)(aródou)
• Hebrew:ימי(he)m(yami)
• Indonesian:lepas pantai(id)
• Macedonian:средморе(sredmore)
• Ngazidja Comorian:maze
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:offshore

  Nynorsk:offshore

• Spanish:mar adentro(es),ultramar(es),alta mar(es)m,mar afueram
• Swedish:till havs(sv),offshore(sv)

located in another country

• Armenian:օֆշորային(hy)(ōfšorayin)
• Belarusian:афшо́рны(afšórny)
• Bulgarian:офшо́рен(ofšóren)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Ly ngạn／Ly ngạn(zh)(lí'àn),Tân ngoại／Tân ngoại(bīnwài),Nước ngoài／Nước ngoài(zh)(guówài)

• Esperanto:alilanda
• Finnish:ulkomaalainen(fi)
• French:offshore(fr)
• Georgian:ოფშორული(opšoruli)
• German:Off-Shore-
• Greek:εξωχώριοςm(exochórios)
• Icelandic:please add this translation if you can
• Japanese:オフショア(ja)(ofushoa),Hải ngoạiで の(か​いがいで の, kaigai de no)
• Kazakh:офшорлық(ofşorlyq),оффшорлық(offşorlyq)
• Korean:역외( vực ngoại )(ko)(yeogoe),해외( hải ngoại )(ko)(hae'oe)
• Macedonian:странскаf(stranska),странскиmpl(stranski)
• Russian:офшо́рный(ru)(ofšórnyj)
• Spanish:deslocalizado(es)f,deslocalizada(es)f
• Swedish:utländsk(sv),offshore(sv)
• Ukrainian:офшо́рний(ofšórnyj)

Adverb

offshore(notcomparable)

1. Away from the shore.
2. At somedistancefrom the shore.

Translations

away from the shore

• Finnish:merellä(fi)
• Greek:αρόδου(el)(aródou)
• Indonesian:lepas pantai(id)
• Italian:al largo
• Marathi:किनारापार(kinārāpār),किनाऱ्यापासून दूर(kināryāpāsūn dūr)
• Russian:в откры́том мо́ре(v otkrýtom móre)
• Spanish:alejadodelacosta

at some distance from the shore

• Bulgarian:близо до брега(blizo do brega)
• Finnish:rannasta
• Greek:αρόδου(el)(aródou)
• Indonesian:lepas pantai(id)
• Italian:al largo
• Marathi:किनारापार(kinārāpār),किनाऱ्यापासून दूर(kināryāpāsūn dūr)
• Spanish:lejosdelacosta

Verb

offshore(third-person singular simple presentoffshores,present participleoffshoring,simple past and past participleoffshored)

1. To move industrial production from oneregionto another or from onecountryto another, usually seeking lower business costs, likelabor.
   • 2005July 25,Robert J. Samuelson,“The World Is Still Round”, inNewsweek,page49:

     The McKinsey Global Institute says that 750,000 American service jobs have been “offshored”out of total U.S. jobs of about 140 million.

   • 2009,Adjiedj Bakas,Beyond the Crisis: The Future of Capitalism,Meghan-Kiffer Press,→ISBN,page109:

     India has become the leading destination foroffshoredservices.

   • 2010,Paul Craig Roberts,How the Economy Was Lost,AK Press,→ISBN,page 8:

     Corporationsoffshoretheir production, because they can more cheaply produce abroad what they sell to Americans. When corporations bring theiroffshoredproduction to the U.S. to sell, the goods count as imports.

Translations

to use foreign labor to substitute for local labor

• Catalan:deslocalitzar(ca)
• Dutch:verplaatsen(nl),delokaliseren(Belgium)
• Finnish:ulkoistaaulkomaille
• French:délocaliser(fr)
• Galician:deslocalizar
• Italian:delocalizzare(it)
• Polish:przenosić(pl)impf,przenieść(pl)pf
• Portuguese:deslocalizar
• Spanish:deslocalizar(es)

Noun

offshore(pluraloffshores)

1. An area or or portion of sea away from the shore.
   • 1884,Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor,Washington: United States Bureau of Fisheries, page XXVI:

     This problem, so far as theoffshoresof the United States is concerned, is one that is eminently worthy of the attention of the United States Fish Commission and the support of Congress in its attempt to solve it.

2. Anisland,outcrop,or other land away from shore.
   • 1958October 11, “Signs of improvement”, inBusiness Week,page36:

     The Nationalists see that they have nothing to gain—in fact, a lot to lose—by hanging onto theoffshoresas military bases.

3. Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country.
   • 1984,Richard H. Blum,Offshore Haven Banks, Trusts, and Companies,New York: Praeger,→ISBN,page31:

     If costs are unequally imposed by governments on theiroffshores,the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive.

   • 2001,Cindy Hahamovitch, “In America Life is Given Away”, in Catherine McNicol Stock, Robert D. Johnston, editors,The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State,Ithaca: Cornell University Press,→ISBN,page136:

     Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican "braceros" and Caribbean "offshores,"as the workers were called.

See also

• deep-sea
• inshore
• nearshore
• noshore
• onshore
• reshore

French

Alternative forms

• off-shore,off shore(pre-1990 spelling)

Etymology

BorrowedfromEnglishoffshore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ɔf.ʃɔʁ/

Adjective

offshore(pluraloffshores)

1. offshore,in the sea away from the coast
2. offshore,in another country

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

FromEnglish.

Adjective

offshore(indeclinable)

1. offshore

References

• “offshore”inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

FromEnglish.

Adjective

offshore(indeclinable)

1. offshore

References

• “offshore”inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Adjective

offshore(invariable)

1. offshore

Noun

offshoref(pluraloffshores)

1. offshore,offshorecompany