adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 on the land rather than at sea:
the largest onshore oil field in Europe
2 (of wind) blowing from the sea towards the land:
The height of tides is increased by onshore winds.
onshore adverb:
The wind will drive the boat onshore.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for onshore is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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