overseas
Academic Word List, sublist 6.
About 11.78 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Abroad, especially across the sea.
Overseas branches of the company are doing well.
- adjective Used with ethnicities, nationalities, or religious affiliations: living (being resident) in a foreign country.
Overseas Chinese communities exist in North and South America.
- adjective Across a sea; to or in an area across a sea.
Her overseas trip went well.
- adverb Abroad.
He emigrated and now lives overseas.
- adverb Across a sea; to an area across a sea.
She travelled overseas.
Similar words
abroad foreign sea beyond the sea over the sea outdoor outside offshore out externally
Often followed by
chinese trade and development markets territories to investment in
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