off-shore
See also: offshore
English
Adjective
- Alternative form of offshore.
- 2023 May 31, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Electrification at heart of Irish expansion plan”, in RAIL, number 984, page 13:
- With IE on the road to decarbonising rail services, chiefly by electrification, Hendrick revealed that the company was looking to develop its facilities at Rosslare Europort to deliver off-shore renewable energy. "Off-shore wind is our oil," he noted.
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Pre-1990 spelling of offshore.
Further reading
- “off-shore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English off-shore.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ofˈʃoɾ/ [ofˈʃoɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: off‧shore
Adjective
- alternative spelling of offshore
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “off-shore”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]