<p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>Off or away from the shore: <em>They pushed the boat offshore.</em></li><li>At a distance from the shore, on a body of water: <em>looking for oil offshore.</em></li><li>In a foreign country.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Moving or tending away from the shore toward or into a body of water: <em>an offshore wind.</em></li><li>Located or operating on a body of water, at some distance from the shore: <em>offshore fisheries.</em></li><li>Registered, located, conducted, or operated in a foreign country: <em>an offshore investment company; offshore manufacture of car parts.</em></li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with or without object) (of a company or organization) to move jobs or business activities from the home territory to a foreign country: <em>At this time, the manufacturing division has no plans to offshore.</em></li><li>Compare nearshore (def 2), reshore.</li><li>When our IT services were offshored to Malaysia, I lost my job.</li></ul>