overseas

[ adverb, noun oh-ver-seez; adjective oh-ver-seez ]

/ adverb, noun ˌoʊ vərˈsiz; adjective ˈoʊ vərˈsiz /

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adverb

over, across, or beyond the sea; abroad: to be sent overseas.

adjective

of or relating to passage over the sea: overseas travel.

situated beyond the sea: overseas territories.

pertaining to countries, associations, activities, etc., beyond the sea: overseas military service; overseas commitments.

noun

(used with a singular verb) countries or territories across the sea or ocean.

Words nearby overseas

overrun brake, oversaturated, overscale, overscore, overscrupulous, overseas, overseas cap, overseas telegram, oversee, overseer, oversell

Also especially British, o·ver·sea

[adverb oh-ver-see; adjective oh-ver-see] /adverb ˌoʊ vərˈsi; adjective ˈoʊ vərˈsi/ (for defs 1–4).

Origin of overseas

before 1150; oversea (Middle English overse, Old English ofer sǣ; see over-, sea) + -s³ or -s¹

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Examples from the Web for overseas

At least 70 percent of the children were adopted from overseas, including Russia, China, Ethiopia and Ukraine.
Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking|Tina Traster|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the early 1900s, fashion forgers often sketched designs they saw in Paris shows and sold reproductions in France and overseas.
The Big Business of Fashion Counterfeits|Lizzie Crocker|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The bill also provided $64 billion in war funding through the Overseas Contingency Operations account.
Merry Christmas, Defense Contractors!|Veronique de Rugy|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Australians are just not programmed for these things and look at it in general as something going on overseas.
Jihadi Siege in Sydney Ends in Gunfight|Courtney Subramanian, Lennox Samuels, Chris Allbritton|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“That FBI money is designed to entice somebody in the United states to help find where he is overseas,” the former agent said.
Post Office Robbers More Wanted Than ISIS|M.L. Nestel|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most of the British self-governing colonies are to-day great States, well able to defend themselves from overseas attack.
The Crime Against Europe|Roger Casement
She was Transcontinent & Overseas, the biggest contragravity ship on the planet.
The Cosmic Computer|Henry Beam Piper
We who come from overseas are touched by all this, perhaps more than you can imagine.
Canada in Flanders, Volume I (of 3)|Lord Max Aitken Beaverbrook
The four overseas companies had carried out the recent operations on the Somme (September-October 1916).
A Company of Tanks|W. H. L. Watson
A big money saving was effected by changing the design of the freight cars asked for by our overseas forces.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict Crowell

British Dictionary definitions for overseas

overseas

adverb (ˌəʊvəˈsiːz)

beyond the sea; abroad

adjective (ˈəʊvəˈsiːz)

of, to, in, from, or situated in countries beyond the sea

Also: oversea (ˌəʊvəˈsiː) of or relating to passage over the sea

noun (ˌəʊvəˈsiːz)

(functioning as singular) informal a foreign country or foreign countries collectively

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adverb (ˌəʊvəˈsiːz)

adjective (ˈəʊvəˈsiːz)

noun (ˌəʊvəˈsiːz)