Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Taking place or located away from the site, as of a particular activity: an off-site waste treatment operation.
Wiktionary
- adj. That takes place away from a particular site
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Taking place or located away from the specified site. Opposite to
on-site .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. taking place or located away from the site
Etymologies
- off- + site (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Evren Esen , manager of the Society for Human Resource Management's survey research center, called the increase "somewhat positive," especially as more of those parties take place off-site, which is usually a more expensive undertaking.”
The Wall Street Journal: No Vacation or Bonus? Workers Say OK
“Did you *know* that Tom called an off-site meeting for the WWA creative team to do something he calls a CIAW?”
“We've had to do all of our scenic backdrop painting off-site, which is far from ideal.”
“Things that can be reused intact, such as hard drives and processors, are salvaged; parts containing dangerous materials — batteries, lamps, toners, mercury-containing devices — are removed for further off-site processing; and everything in between gets thrown into the shredder.”
“And on Friday afternoon, bloggers will join Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Ryback, Congressman Keith Ellison and labor leaders at an off-site rally for jobs.”
The Huffington Post: Paul Hogarth: Netroots at a Crossroads in Minneapolis This Weekend
“I've worked with very wealthy clients who've gone on manic sprees of indiscriminate acquisition, accumulating a stockpile of furniture and furnishings that filled several off-site storage containers.”
The Huffington Post: Kathryn M. Ireland: Hoarding Versus Collecting
“With the help of a reseller of Vidyo's video service, the hospital took the standard mobile cart used in the emergency room and added webcams and speakerphones purchased from Amazon.com to set up a makeshift mobile video conferencing system that allow doctors to consult off-site neurologists.”
The Wall Street Journal: Cutting the Tab for Video Conferencing
“The chemicals reported include hydrogen flouride, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and sodium hydroxide, of which some is treated on-site, and the rest disposed of off-site.”
“Until now, Storm King had not ventured off-site to organize exhibitions, and "Mark di Suvero at Governors Island" is an appropriately grand gesture.”
“Current rules for a blackout at a nuclear plant don't fully account for a Fukushima-like scenario in which the plant loses both on-site and off-site power simultaneously, Mr. Miller said.”
The Wall Street Journal: Nuclear Regulators Question Plants' Safety Preparations
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