Onshore vs Inshore - What's the difference?
onshore | inshore |
(management) To relocate production, services or jobs to lower-cost locations in the same country.
Close to (especially in sight of) a shore.
*1875 , William Henley, :
*:The sunset's roses faint and fain decline.
*:Inshore the still sea shimmers scale on scale,
*:Like an enormous coat of magic mail —
*:Sheet silver shot with tremulous opaline.
*, chapter=3
, title= (of a wind) Blowing from the sea to the land.
As adjectives the difference between onshore and inshore
is that onshore is moving from the sea towards the land while inshore is close to (especially in sight of) a shore.As adverbs the difference between onshore and inshore
is that onshore is from the sea towards the land while inshore is near the shore.As a verb onshore
is to relocate production, services or jobs to lower-cost locations in the same country.onshore
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Alternative forms
* on-shoreVerb
(onshor)See also
* noshore * offshoreAnagrams
*inshore
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Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}