offshore

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off·shore /ˌɒfˈʃɔː◂ $ ˌɒːfˈʃɔːr◂/ adjectiveadj

1 TTWin or under the sea and not far from the coast 海上的；海底的；近海的 → inshore, onshore

offshore oil fields

近海油田

an offshore island

近海岛屿

2 offshore banks/companies/investments etc banks etc that are based abroad in a country where you pay less tax than in your home country 境外[海外]的银行/公司/投资等

offshore financial centres

设在境外的金融中心

Examples from the Corpus

offshore banks/companies/investments etc• All plans are offered with guaranteed clean title in offshore companies.• The table below shows the best deals currently available from offshore banks and building societies.• For a good ways more, Collymore sailed onward to the offshore banks and then anchored.• A review of offshore banks was also started and was expected to lead to several banks losing their licences to operate.

3. offshore wind/current etc HEMa wind etc that is blowing or moving away from the land 离岸风/离岸流等 OPP onshore

Examples from the Corpus

offshore wind/current etc• At the moment, only inshore wind farms have been erected but there is great potential in offshore wind.• This is an essential skill in gusty offshore winds.• The government has responded by planning offshore wind farms on the Ijsselmeer.• When sailing in offshore winds, however, this rule is more often than not proved right, particularly in coastal bays.• Large swell waves may be present with an absolutely calm sea or even with light offshore winds in the opposite direction.• Steady offshore winds keep blowing the water westward where it becomes heated.• You should never sail in an offshore wind, particularly not alone.• Avoid strong tides, offshore winds, poor visibility or sailing in the dark.

—offshore adverbadv

a boat anchored offshore

在近海岸锚泊的船

Examples from the Corpus

offshore• 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.• Hamilton has estimated that these two projects and the offshore development will create some 3,000 construction jobs and over 200 permanent jobs.• Most are offshore financial centres also targeted by international watchdogs for loose banking regulation and harmful tax practices.• offshore fishing• More than 100 offshore funds pay an income in sterling.• To enable waves to break some distance offshore it is necessary that the offshore profile should possess a very gentle gradient.• Conoco also disclosed it has started a review of offshore maintenance operations could lead to a jobs rundown.• offshore oil reserves• The coupling of this offshore subsidence and onshore uplift will induce a flexure of the margin which will accentuate uplift inland.

From Longman Business Dictionary

offshoreoff·shore1 /ˌɒfˈʃɔː◂ˌɒːfˈʃɔːr◂/ adjectiveadj

1involving an activity performed outside a particular country, rather than inside it

Taiwanese regulators have been unhappy with offshore trading in its stock futures.

2offshore bank/company/investment etcTAX a bank etc that is based in a country where taxes are lower, laws are less strict etc

He had transferred the money from Switzerland to accounts in offshore banks.

firms based in loosely-regulated offshore financial centres

3connected with oil and gas production that is done on or under the sea

offshore oil drilling

—offshore adverbadv

There have been complaints about capital being invested offshore.

He worked offshore on an oil rig.

offshoreoffshore2 verb [transitiveT]

MANUFACTURING if a company offshores jobs or an activity, it moves them to a foreign country where costs are lower

Some 3,000 formerly British jobs have been offshored each year since the millennium.

—offshoring noun [uncountableU]

We are particularly concerned about the offshoring of high-tech jobs.

off·shore adjectiveadj

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