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Meaning of Offshore | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)

Definitions

  1. An area of or portion of sea away from the shore.
  2. An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.
  3. Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country.

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Examples

“This problem, so far as the offshores of 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.”
“The Nationalists see that they have nothing to gain—in fact, a lot to lose—by hanging onto the offshores as military bases.”
“If costs are unequally imposed by governments on their offshores, the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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