Usually means: Located on land, not sea.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word onshore:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. onshore: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. onshore: Merriam-Webster
  3. onshore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. onshore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. onshore: Collins English Dictionary
  6. onshore: Vocabulary.com
  7. Onshore, onshore: Wordnik
  8. onshore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. onshore: Wiktionary
  10. onshore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. onshore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. onshore: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. onshore: Dictionary.com
  14. Onshore (hydrocarbons), Onshore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. onshore: Rhymezone
  16. onshore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. onshore: FreeDictionary.org
  18. onshore: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. onshore: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. onshore: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Onshore: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Onshore: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See onshores as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Moving from the sea towards the land.
adjective:  Positioned on or near the shore.
adjective:  Within the country; not overseas.
adverb:  From the sea towards the land.
verb:  (management) To relocate production, services or jobs to lower-cost locations in the same country.

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