" offshore "

 [ "offshore" ]

1: 1) n. The place in Norway to work.

  * e.g.,  ... 1) I work offshore, we watch plasma TV's on coffee break. 

 [ "offshore" ]

2: 2) adj. Unavailable for drinking/partying due to being on a rig.

  * e.g.,  ... 2) I was offshore for the last 4 weekends. 

 [ "offshore" ]

3: 3) v. Tricked, conned, or otherwise persuaded into going offshore.

  * e.g.,  ... 3) I was supposed to be home for the holidays, but I got offshored. Looks like this year I'll have an offshore christmas instead. 

 [ "Offshored" ]

1: Losing a good paying job to a non-North American country often resulting in cost savings to greedy corporations at the expense of quality.

  * e.g.,  ... "...no I'm not with Microsoft any more, my job got offshored to Bangalore. I hear my old customers are frustrated by the thick accents and out of touch nature." 

 [ "offshoring" ]

1: Offshoring is a practice where companies pay foreign workers 1/3 the pay for work (such as software development). What compaines fail to understand is that it takes the offshore workers 4 times as long to perform their work, and the resulting product is sub-par at best.

  * e.g.,  ... Local programmer makes $60.00 / hour. 

 [ "offshorize" ]

1: the sending of work from the developed world to the cheaper destinations or developing world like Philipines,India...

  * e.g.,  ... Man!! I am jobless since my work has been offshorized to India. 

 [ "offshorize" ]

2: Earlier the offshore meant just sending the manual software IT work to cheaper destinations.Now its the quality work or R&D center.Typical cases been MICROSOFT,ADOBE and so on..

  * e.g.,  ... I have got awesome hike,I am owning the offshorized work of Adobe for cloud computing in India. 

 [ "offshoring" ]

1: When incompetent overpaid fuckbitches like Kyle here fail to make enough money for their employers to make it worthwhile for said employers to pay for their websurfing and porn searching, and are then bangalored in favor of even more incompetent but underpaid fuckbitches being paid an eighth as much, the event is called offshoring.

  * e.g.,  ... A: I hear IBM is offshoring 11,000 jobs to that shithole India. 

 [ "offshoring" ]

1: When Asia, India, Pakistan, and all those gay third-world countries steal jobs from America. They are not as skilled as the Americans they stole the job from, and are too stupid to realize they are getting paid very little compared to Americans.

  * e.g.,  ... Offshoring sucks. 

 [ "offshore drilling" ]

1: The practice of leaving the country for the explicit purpose of engaging in sex.

  * e.g.,  ... "We're headed to Costa Rica because we heard that there is great opportunity for offshore drilling there." 

 [ "offshore christmas" ]

1: n. A Christmas Eve or Christmas Day spent offshore on a rig or platform in Norway. Usually celebrated with a large, elaborate meal and boxes of chocolates.

  * e.g.,  ... My crew and I were running an RST job, so we had an offshore christmas. 

 [ "offshore mom" ]

1: a mother who shops at Pier 1, Cost Plus, or other such imported home furnishings stores so as to make herself appear more worldly

  * e.g.,  ... Example- person 1: "Have you been to Stacy's house? It's in a track neighborhood but it's full of obscure scented candles and Native American artwork like a Pier 1 catalog." person 2: "She must have an offshore mom." 

 [ "Offshore Drilling" ]

1: A euphemism for anal sex.

  * e.g.,  ... Bill: "Hey Larry, you going to do some offshore drilling tonight?"