off-shore
Adjective
Meaning
off-shore (not comparable)
Alternative form of offshore.
Alternative names
off shore
Synonyms
Examples
The lead Britain can give and is already giving rests on the fact that we are a world-minded people. Britain will give a lead in political attitudes and political developments in Europe. We cannot do that by taking our bat home and sinking into an off-shore island mentality.
A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.
And, of course, the few banks which did jump in have been able to arbitrage away the gap between the two markets, achieving one of RBI’s goals—to reduce the role of off-shore markets in driving USD-INR price discovery and volatility.
At times a cool off-shore current can produce fog and heavy dew.
As of August 2012, off-shore petroleum exploration of promising formations in the Gulf of Mexico had been unproductive with two failures reported.
Great Eastern owns 69 ships comprising 11 crude oil tankers, 17 product tankers, 5 LPG carriers, 13 dry bulk carriers, 19 off-shore vessels and four oil drilling rigs.