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overseas

/adverb, noun oh-ver-seez; adjective oh-ver-seez/US // adverb, noun ˌoʊ vərˈsiz; adjective ˈoʊ vərˈsiz //

海外,海外的

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : over, across, or beyond the sea; abroad: to be sent overseas.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to passage over the sea: overseas travel.
    • : situated beyond the sea: overseas territories.
    • : pertaining to countries, associations, activities, etc., beyond the sea: overseas military service; overseas commitments.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : countries or territories across the sea or ocean.

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Examples

  • Corea toured constantly overseas and across America, using a tour bus once owned by country star Merle Haggard.

  • Meanwhile, players with no interest in attending school have had to find creative alternatives, mostly overseas, for their NBA-mandated gap years.

  • Since most US cruise ships are registered overseas, the Passenger Vessels Service Act means all cruises to Alaska include a stop at a Canadian port.

  • By the 1970s, population growth, coupled with rising inflation and competition from rebuilt overseas economies, led to budget problems for state governments.

  • Amazon might seem an unstoppable force in the US, but the picture has often looked different overseas.

  • At least 70 percent of the children were adopted from overseas, including Russia, China, Ethiopia and Ukraine.

  • Now Wisconsin is considering making it mandatory for parents who adopt overseas to have their children “re-adopted” in the state.

  • In the early 1900s, fashion forgers often sketched designs they saw in Paris shows and sold reproductions in France and overseas.

  • The bill also provided $64 billion in war funding through the Overseas Contingency Operations account.

  • It invites dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans serving overseas as bargaining chips.

  • A full General landing to inspect overseas is entitled to a salute of 17 guns—well, I got my dues.

  • Her flower in one hand and the umbrella making a bright halo round her, she looks like a little idol from overseas.

  • Some Americans and Canadians may not want to go overseas; they may be opposed to fighting; they may think they are not needed.

  • For every overseas soldier wounded on the western front there are six of the Imperial troops wounded.

  • The British have five million troops under arms, of which only one-fifth are overseas.