Usually means: Distance from shore at sea.
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  1. offing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. offing: Merriam-Webster
  3. offing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. offing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. offing: Collins English Dictionary
  6. offing: Vocabulary.com
  7. Offing, offing: Wordnik
  8. offing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. offing: Wiktionary
  10. offing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. offing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. offing: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Offing, offing: Dictionary.com
  14. offing: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. offing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Offing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. offing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. offing: Rhymezone
  19. Offing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. offing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. offing: FreeDictionary.org
  22. offing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. offing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. offing: Medical dictionary

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (offing)

noun:  (nautical) The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.
noun:  (nautical) The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.
noun:  (figuratively) The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing.

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