onshore

[on-shawr, -shohr, awn-]

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adverb

onto or in the direction of the shore from a body of water: a breeze blowing onshore.
in or on a body of water, close to or parallel with the shore: to sail a boat onshore.
on land, especially within the area adjoining a port; ashore: to land and shop onshore.

adjective

moving or proceeding toward shore or onto land from a body of water: an onshore breeze.
located on or close to the shore: an onshore lighthouse; an onshore buoy.
done or taking place on land: onshore liberty for the crew.

Origin of onshore

First recorded in 1870–75; on + shore¹

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Related Words for onshore

ashore, inshore, aground, inland

Examples from the Web for onshore

Contemporary Examples of onshore

It would support efforts to “onshore” production and leverage private capital to modernize transport and other public systems.
How Democrats Can Recover
Will Marshall
November 9, 2014
Wilmar, however, claimed that onshore turbines are less reliant on subsidies and more cost-effective than those built in the sea.
Prince Philip’s Green Gaffe on ‘Useless’ Wind Farms
Tom Sykes
November 20, 2011

Historical Examples of onshore

When we got on board the boat, we found that all the women had taken refuge in it, thinking that they had seen Indians onshore.
Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh
Benjamin Kohlmeister and George Kmoch
Onshore, we had the sail spread so as to shelter us against the wind and dew.
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete
William T. Sherman
Many a time I had to clear off the land, so to speak, against an onshore gale with my barge and family.
A Floating Home
Cyril Ionides
Undoubtedly an onshore wind and a flood-tide bring sand into the lower reaches, for the men find it in the dredges.
A Floating Home
Cyril Ionides
"Watchin' out for evidence in a law case, probably," growled Cap'n Sproul, the fear of onshore artfulness ever with him.
The Skipper and the Skipped
Holman Day

British Dictionary definitions for onshore

onshore

adjective, adverb

towards the landan onshore gale
on land; not at sea

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