onshore
Use Onshore in a sentence
adverb
1.
onto or in the direction of the shore from a body of water: a breeze blowing onshore.
3.
on land, especially within the area adjoining a port; ashore: to land and shop onshore.
adjective
4.
moving or proceeding toward shore or onto land from a body of water: an onshore breeze.
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Onshore
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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| —adj, —adv | |
| 1. | towards the land: an onshore gale |
| 2. | on land; not at sea |
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Example sentences
The work has rapidly become an onshore mop-up exercise rather than an offshore recovery, partly due to the nature of the oil.
But the biggest deterrent to offshore borrowing is the difficulty of getting the money back onshore again.
Onshore, these are often plowed into a rancher or farmers field for fertilizer.
No one onshore was supposed to know where they were.
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