Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Beyond the sea; abroad.
- adj. Of, relating to, originating in, or situated in countries across the sea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as oversea.
Wiktionary
- adj. Abroad.
- adj. Living (being resident) in a foreign country.
- adj. Across a sea.
- adv. Abroad.
- adv. Across a sea.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. in a foreign country
- adv. beyond or across the sea
- adj. being or passing over or across the sea
- adv. in a place across an ocean
Examples
“It must have been the word overseas that tripped her memory.”
“He'd dug one of the many foxholes during his term overseas, and the Nazis were shooting machine guns.”
“Hot Chip, is a five piece electronic dance band from London, who have laid claim to the term overseas with their eminently danceable brand of pseudo-electronic pop.”
“If the U.S. market founders, gains in overseas markets might rise, cushioning your losses.”
“Disenfranchising our troops overseas is not an option.”
The Washington Post: Experts raise warning flags over D.C. Internet voting plan
“The central bank kicked off 2011 by raising bank-reserve requirements and boosting taxes on short-term overseas loans, as well as implementing three interest-rate increases in an effort to rein in credit growth and cool demand.”
The Wall Street Journal: Brazil's Economic Boom Advances in First Quarter
“So many American died that day, and as the violence of war ramped up, hundreds of thousands more would make that devastating sacrifice, just as now, young men defend our country in overseas places.”
“You could say, as many do, that shipping jobs overseas is no big deal because the high-value work -- and much of the profits -- remain in the U.S.”
The Huffington Post: Dave Johnson: Consensus Grows: Confront China On Trade
“Sinha, who has never been to an M&S store overseas, is now addicted to its not-so-busy ambience and the distinctly up market feel.”
“And as to sales, Brookes replied, “Yes certainly …. it has led to new on and off premise accounts in overseas markets and new customers domestically …. most importantly we have built great relationships with customers via twitter and that is gold.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘overseas’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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AFET - diplomacy
broker a peace ac..., client state, deadlocked peace ..., embassy, freeze, goodwill ambassador, hinterland, interfere in dome..., intervene personally, maintain technica..., mediation, no business as usual and 670 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Verses
inverse, reverse, universe, obverse, adverse, averse, converse, bouleversement, diverse, overseas, oversee, oversew and 20 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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far and away
figurative distance
darkest africa, outer mongolia, other side of the..., end of the earth, north pole, great white north, outback, wild west, far east, down under, distant shores, back of beyond and 24 more...
Tweets
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