offshore

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An area of or portion of sea away from the shore.
    — 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.
  2. An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.
    — The Nationalists see that they have nothing to gain—in fact, a lot to lose—by hanging onto the offshores as military bases.
  3. Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country.
    — If costs are unequally imposed by governments on their offshores, the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive.
动词 v.
  1. To move industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, in order to seek lower business costs, such as labor. transitive
    — The McKinsey Global Institute says that 750,000 American service jobs have been “offshored” out of total U.S. jobs of about 140 million.
形容词 adj.
  1. Moving away from the shore. not-comparable
  2. Located in the sea away from the coast. not-comparable
    — an offshore oil rig
  3. Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs. not-comparable
    — American companies use offshore services for one reason, said Herbert F. Schantz, a consultant in Sterling, Va.: cheap labor.
副词 adv.
  1. Away from the shore. not-comparable
  2. At some distance from the shore. not-comparable

词形变化

off-shore alternative off-shore alternative offshores present,singular,third-person offshoring participle,present offshored participle,past offshored past off-shore alternative offshores plural off-shore alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
offshorable offshorer offshore seahorse offshorization right-shore right-shoring
相关词
deep-sea inshore nearshore noshore onshore reshore

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English off-
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English off-
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English off-
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English off-
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