Overseas
[əʊvə'siːz] or [,ovɚ'siz]
Definition
(adv.) Over the sea; abroad.
Typist: Ursula
Examples
- This demand they made to a population that subsisted almost entirely by overseas trade! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A considerable school of political thinkers in Britain was disposed to regard overseas possessions as a source of weakness to the kingdom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Chinese shipping was upon the seas, and there was a considerable overseas trade during that time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Like the Athenian empire, it was an overseas empire; its ways were sea ways, and its common link was the British Navy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That much and no more seemed to many thinkers in the early part of the nineteenth century to be the limit set to overseas rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Ursula