onshore
on shawr
- a (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land
an onshore gale - s on the edge of the land
an onshore lighthouse - r on or toward the land
they were living onshore
- The new force, however, will have no expanded mandate to attack the pirates, who have exploited gray areas in international law and the absence of any rule of law onshore in .
- We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore.
- As a Coast Guard medic in the 1950s, he once performed an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane with the help of an onshore surgeon who guided him by radio.