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Offshore Definition–adverb | 1. | off or away from the shore: They pushed the boat offshore. | | 2. | at a distance from the shore, on a body of water: looking for oil offshore. | –adjective | 4. | moving or tending away from the shore toward or into a body of water: an offshore wind. | | 5. | located or operating on a body of water, at some distance from the shore: offshore fisheries. | | 6. | registered, located, conducted, or operated in a foreign country: an off-shore investment company; off-shore manufacture of car parts. | |
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Development Definition–noun | 1. | the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development. | | 2. | a significant consequence or event: recent developments in the field of science. | | 3. | a developed state or form: Drama reached its highest development in the plays of Shakespeare. | |
| 4. | Music. the part of a movement or composition in which a theme or themes are developed. | | 5. | a large group of private houses or of apartment houses, often of similar design, constructed as a unified community, esp. by a real-estate developer or government organization. | | 6. | Chess. the act or process of developing chess pieces. | | 7. | Mining. the work of digging openings, as tunnels, raises, and winzes, to give access to new workings, and of erecting necessary structures. | |
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