offshore
[ˌɔːfˈʃɔːr]
Definition:
1. Away from shore; away from land.
2. (of winds) coming from the land.
3. At some distance from the shore.
'offshore' example sentence:
- headquarters Some companies moved their headquarters offshore to keep them competitive.
- Traditional clothing companies have built offshore, global, rigid supply chains.
- A powerful offshore quake could cause a large tsunami that would reach the shore within minutes.
- Build China's largest offshore exhibition, organized business inspection team, with quality and efficient services.
- Russiahas recently started shipping oil from an offshore terminal in the Pechora Sea to Murmansk.
- Yet drug development has not been driven offshore, despite repeated warnings.
- Jacket is the most widely used offshore platform structural style.
- Europe has around 900 offshore Wells.
- It was the worst offshore oil spill in American history.
- But offshore projects have been stalled.
- In the same year it set these offshore yuan free.
- Provides China, Hong Kong offshore accounting, taxation, auditing, company formation, secretary, immigration consultancy, virtual office services.
- The company's core competence lies with offshore wind farm planning and investments in offshore wind business.
- The plane hit the ocean several miles offshore.
- Pods of dolphins make a daily appearance a few hundred meters offshore.
- One day a larger ship anchored offshore.
- Using offshore havens to avoid taxes and investor protections.
- Smaller islands which prospered from offshore finance worry about tighter international controls.
- Beyond the Antarctic treaties, huge obstacles persist to tapping these resources, like drifting icebergs that could jeopardize offshore platforms.
- A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.
- A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.
- Andrews had stashed money away in secret offshore bank accounts.
- Technological challenges behind offshore wind may be shrinking, but the economics remain daunting.
- The fish stayed 50 yards offshore, well out of range.
- Yantai Raffles Shipyard Limited is a leading offshore and marine fabrication specialist.
- For its special features, offshore company is more available to abuse corporate personality than domestic company.
- Offshore abuses are a real problem.
- He says the president is wrong to link offshore drilling with lower gas prices.
- It is difficult to make seismic acquisition in offshore shallow water areas because of draft.
- Our country has rich offshore aquatic resources.
- Coccophores are pelagic microscopic algae and typically thrive in the offshore photic zone of the open sea.
- Bush Calls for End to Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling.
- Then one night the wind howled loudly in from offshore.
- That's why you keep all your money offshore.
- The Danish company has installed about half this country's offshore wind capacity.
- A final category is the offshore Indian family group.
- C & W has international operations in 33 countries, many of which are offshore tax havens.
- The chapter on offshore development was disappointing.
- Manufacturers don't want to draw attention to moving production offshore.
- The decision to allow more offshore oil drilling angered some Californians.
- The island offers a wide range of offshore banking facilities.
- The shipments compete with production from Canada's offshore Atlantic fields.
- The Basques, Dutch, and English developed the first offshore fishing boats adapted to a colder and stormier Atlantic.
- Not that BP will turn its attention from offshore.
- Offshore debt holders have little leverage over mainland companies struggling to repay their debt.
- It's about 90 percent of the offshore waters that the federal government owns.
- Offshore drilling is one of four actions the president wants lawmakers to take to increase U.S. energy production.
- In other words, we would package the goods offshore.
- Offshore drilling is a little bit more substantive.
- Is it that it has an offshore platform?
- Offshore drilling is currently blocked by both legislative and administrative prohibitions.
- I've opened an offshore account in the Crook Islands.
- What is new is the move offshore.
- They piped oil into storage tanks from ships anchored offshore.
- SFI is used by shipping and offshore companies, shipyards, consultancies, software suppliers, authorities and classification societies.
- Each tidal cycle carries plant material into the offshore water to be used by the subtidal organisms.
- First, Congress should open the way for environmentally responsible offshore exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf.
- This often involves moving money offshore.
- A lot of hopes are resting on the offshore oil industry.
- When you drill offshore, you always have leakage.
- Do they move their money offshore?