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offshore

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1. offshore - Noun

2. offshore - Adjective

3. offshore - Verb

4. offshore - Adverb

5. offshore - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell centers, former African kleptocrats, or the Pentagon. Julian Assange

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters. Daniel Yergin

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.) Ilana Mercer

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years. Richard Linklater

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources. Tom Allen

One well-known critic has been pleased to like this extravaganza better than anything I have written. Personally I prefer "The Offshore Pirate." But, to tamper slightly with Lincoln: If you like this sort of thing, this, possibly, is the sort of thing you'll like. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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