[
US
/ˈoʊvɝˈsiz/
]
ADVERB
- in a place across an ocean
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beyond or across the sea
He lived overseas for many years
ADJECTIVE
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being or passing over or across the sea
some overseas trade in grain arose -
in a foreign country
overseas markets
markets abroad
How To Use overseas In A Sentence
- These pupils were mainly overseas students taking the exams in their second language.
- In that time she accompanied members of the Royal Family on some unforgettable overseas tours.
- She would not say if the law could also be extended to Chinese nationals living overseas.
- Under the betting ordinance, Hong Kong punters can bet on overseas races, but they must be part of a local racing programme.
- The prime minister pledged again that his government would not implement conscription for overseas service.
- The aim of these articles is to inform the Fellowship of missionary activity, both at home and overseas.
- Just as the Olympic flame is about to reach Hong Kong and mainland China, the Guangdong province police have recently uncovered a case in which a cheap-rate factory in Guangdong was filling out orders by overseas Tibet splittist organizations to manufacture the snow-mountain-lion flags of Free Tibet. The Jawa Report
- Not until November 1944 were conscripts sent to fight overseas. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
- Then he received a yearlong remote assignment overseas and had to go without his family. Christianity Today
- The capital of the overseas territory of French Polynesia, a port on the northwest coast of Tahiti in the Society Islands of the southern Pacific Ocean.
