onshore
/ˈɑnʃoɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Positioned on or near the shore.
verb
To relocate production, services or jobs to lower-cost locations in the same country.
Example Sentences
- "an onshore breeze"
- "Princeton University's Center for Environmental Studies recommended today that New Jersey minimize adverse impacts of offshore drilling by limiting to the Atlantic City area any onshore bases built to support and supply oil rigs in the ocean."
- "The second time La Suprema came into harbor, at the Port of Augusta, in the east of Sicily, I watched the police onshore grow impatient with a teenager who was scheduled to disembark."
- "By this measure, it was only the second largest onshore leak in the US last year, surpassed by one near San Antonio, Texas in March which discharged 147 tonnes of methane an hour."
- "Like most storms, Hurricane Katrina weakened as it came onshore, and by Monday evening the National Hurricane Center had downgraded it to a tropical storm."
- "I don’t want to suggest that any attempt to onshore production will doom America to runaway costs, supply-chain catastrophes, and frayed global alliances. In many cases, I’m sure there are brilliant reasons to bring back more advanced manufacturing, clean-energy construction, and resource production."
Etymology
From on + shore.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɑnʃoɹ/
- British English: /ˈɒnʃɔː/
Inflected Forms
on-shore (alternative)
more onshore (comparative)
most onshore (superlative)
onshores (present, singular)
onshoring (participle, present)
onshored (participle, past)
onshored (past)