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Definition: Overseas |
OverseasAdjective1. In a foreign country; "markets abroad"; "overseas markets". 2. Being or passing over or across the sea; "some overseas trade in grain arose". Adverb1. Beyond or across the sea; "He lived overseas for many years". 2. In a place across an ocean. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "overseas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic, the French colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana in the Caribbean and Réunion in the Indian Ocean became départements d'outre-mer or DOMs.Saint-Pierre and Miquelon became a DOM in 1976, but its status changed to that of a collectivité territoriale in 1985.
As integral parts of the French Republic, they are represented in the National Assembly, Senate and Economic and Social Council, elect a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), and also use the Euro as their currency. Since 1982, following the French government's policy of decentralization, they have elected regional councils with powers similar to those of the régions of metropolitan France.
See also: département
External link
- Ministère de l'Outre-Mer
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dpartement d'outre-mer."
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zh-tw:華僑 zh-cn:华侨Overseas Chinese (華僑 in pinyin: hua2 qiao2, or 華胞 hua2 bao1, or 僑胞 qiao2 bao1) are ethnic Chinese who live outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan. There are approximately 60 million overseas Chinese mostly living in southeast Asia where they make up a majority of the population of Singapore and significant minority populations in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. The overseas populations in those areas arrived between the 16th and the 19th centuries.
More recent emigration has been directed primarily to North America with the United States and Canada being destinations. (see entries on Malaysian Chinese, Indonesian Chinese, Chinese Canadian, Chinese Puerto Rican, Chinese American, American-born Chinese, and Taiwanese American).
Overseas Chinese vary widely as to their degree of assimilation, their interactions with the surrounding communities (see Chinatown), and their relationship with China. In Thailand, overseas Chinese have largely intermarried and assimilated with the native community, while in Malaysia and Singapore, overseas Chinese have maintained a distinct communal identity.
Often there are different waves of immigration leading to subgroups among overseas Chinese such as the new and old immigrants in Cambodia.
Many people, particularly in Malaysia and Singapore, who are considered overseas Chinese do not welcome the label.
The Chinese in southeast Asian countries have often established themselves in commerce and finances. In North America, because of immigration policies, overseas Chinese tend to be found in professional occupations, including significant ranks in medicine and academia.
Both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan maintain highly complex relationships with overseas Chinese populations. Both maintain cabinet level ministries to deal with overseas Chinese affairs, and many local governments within the PRC have overseas Chinese bureaus. Both the PRC and ROC have some legislative representation for overseas Chinese. In the case of the PRC, some seats in the National People's Congress are allocated for returned overseas Chinese. In the Legislative Yuan, there are a small number of seats allocated for overseas Chinese. These seats are apportioned to the political parties based on their vote totals on Taiwan, and then the parties assign the seats to overseas Chinese party loyalists.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the ROC tended to seek the support of overseas Chinese communities through branches of the Kuomintang based on Sun Yat-sen's use of expatriate Chinese communities to raise money for his revolution. During this period, the People's Republic of China tended to view overseas Chinese with suspicion as possible capitalist infiltrators and tended to value relationships with southeast Asian nations as more important than gaining support of overseas Chinese, and in the Baudang declaration explicitly stated that overseas Chinese owed primary loyalty to their home nation.
After the Deng Xiaoping reforms, the attitude of the PRC toward overseas Chinese changed dramatically. Rather than being seen with suspicion, they were seen as people which could aid PRC development via their skills and capital. During the 1980s, the PRC actively attempted to court the support of overseas Chinese by among other things, returning properties that were confiscated after the 1949 revolution. More recently PRC policy has attempted to maintain the support of recently emigrated Chinese, who consist largely of Chinese seeking graduate education in the West.
Overseas Chinese have sometimes played an important role in Chinese politics. Most of the funding for the Chinese revolution of 1911 came from overseas Chinese, and many overseas Chinese are overseas for political reasons.
See also:
- Asian American
- Asian Canadian
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Overseas Chinese."
Synonyms: OverseasSynonyms: abroad (adv), beyond the sea (adv), over the sea (adv), oversea (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Overseas |
| English words defined with "overseas": bottom ♦ freighter, French Oceania, French Polynesia ♦ Martinique, merchant ship, merchantman, merchant-venturer ♦ oversea ♦ Portugal, Portuguese Republic, protectionism ♦ venturer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "overseas": Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, Apportionment population ♦ claim payable abroad, Cooperator Program ♦ domestic credit expansion ♦ Export Incentive Program ♦ Field service agency, Files Control Office, Food for Peace Program, foreign tax ♦ IMPORT-EXPORT AGENT ♦ Lighter Aboard Ship ♦ Microbridge ♦ National School Lunch Act, new capital issues ♦ O.P.I.C., overseas dividend, overseas enumeration ♦ Resident population ♦ tax paid abroad, TYMNET ♦ United States Information Agency, United States Trade And Development Agency ♦ Webb-Pomerene Association, Wind River Systems. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The proud men and women of the Navy are protecting America's interests overseas, but your in Lubbuth, Texas hosing down a statue, because your in the Naval Reserve (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) When I was overseas during the war, Your Honor, I learned a French word (Anatomy of a Murder; writing credit: Richard Brooks; Truman Capote) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (1957) Old Mother Riley Overseas (1943) Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980) | |
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 | Today's active-duty force is still deploying more than three times as often with a force 60 percent of its former size. Roughly 90,000 airmen are deployed or stationed overseas. (P.; photo by, Master Sgt. Keith Reed).. |  | Carry drugs overseas and this could be all you'll see of the world : It's Not Worth Taking A Trip With Drugs. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Passengers from an American Overseas Airlines flight ... are led from the plane to a quarantine room ... Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | WAVES at Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana, try on the newly-authorized Overseas Cap, while registering varying degrees of approval and disapproval, circa 1944-45. They are (from left to right): Yeoman 2nd Class Bernice Elliot; Yeoman 3rd Class Martha Dietlin; and Seaman 1st Class Kay Magee. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Probably photographed in 1902, at the time of her completion by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California. This ship was acquired by the U.S. Navy on 12 March 1918 and commissioned on 23 March as USS Alaskan (ID # 4542). She was transferred from the Naval Overseas Transportation Service to the Troop Transportation Force in December 1918. On 5 August 1919, Alaskan was decommissioned and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board. Credit: NAVY. |  | Montage of images of credit cards, Diners' Club sign, and cover of American Express overseas directory. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Overseas forces observe sabbath with prayer. Chinese choir at Protestant service. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yeomen (F) welcoming the Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniels, on return to Washington from overseas, new Navy building, Washington, D.C., May 19, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | From overseas to you--Hear her story at Chautauqua / Gordon Grant. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S. Marines - first to hoist Old Glory on foreign soil Join them for overseas duty / / Sidney H. Riesenberg 1913. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Buy antimalarials in the United States before travel overseas. (references) | |
Overseas travelers should check to see if meningococcal vaccine is recommended for their destination. (references) | ||
Permethrin or another insecticide, deltamethrin, may be purchased overseas to treat nets and clothes. (references) | ||
Business | People tend to travel more overseas. (references) | |
The following overseas brands are popular in the market. (references) | ||
All services received from overseas are also deemed taxable. (references) | ||
Children | Dominican Republic | Tours are marketed by foreigners overseas with the understanding that boys and girls can be found as sex partners. (references) |
Seychelles | Free public education is available through the secondary level until age 18. Parents contribute up to two-thirds of the cost of post-secondary education and training based on their income for both in country and overseas schools. (references) | |
Tuvalu | Students compete for academic scholarships to attend university level education overseas; otherwise, they participate in vocational training focusing on subsistence farming and maritime training for men and computer or other business training for women. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Philippines | An estimated 7.4 million citizens work overseas and remit money home. (references) |
Hong Kong | In the past, several prominent overseas dissidents have been denied visas to enter Hong Kong. (references) | |
Korea | Overseas religious relief organizations have been active in responding to the country's food crisis. (references) | |
Economic History | Cayman Islands | Type: British Overseas Territory. (references) |
Hong Kong | Nearly all of these franchises are from overseas. (references) | |
India | It has 30 offices in India and 10 offices overseas. (references) | |
Human Rights | Grenada | Of these, one person was granted parole to undergo medical treatment overseas. (references) |
Djibouti | The law prohibits forced exile; however, some released citizen prisoners are pressured to go overseas, most often to France. (references) | |
Burma | The communication equipment, which provided 10 telephone lines for overseas calls, had not been licensed by the state-owned Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | The congress was held from May 29 through June 4 2000 in Jayapura, and involved more than 2,000 delegates from each of Papua's districts, other parts of the country, and the Papuan community overseas. (references) |
Political Economy | ALGERIA | Finally, much of Algeria's purchasing overseas is done though international RFPs and tenders. (references) |
Philippines | Overseas worker remittances, estimated at $6 billion per year, and tourism are important sources of foreign exchange. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mexico | The national debate regarding overseas voting for the 2006 presidential elections continued during the year. (references) |
Japan | In 1998 the Diet granted citizens living overseas the right to vote for candidates in national elections in races based on proportional representation. (references) | |
United Kingdom | The small number of remaining overseas British territories have an aggregate population of approximately 190,000. They enjoy varying degrees of self-government based on the British model, with appointed governors. (references) | |
Trade | Finland | Sampo Group and Finnfund provide financing for overseas projects. (references) |
Trinidad | Most financing, like most investment, comes from overseas sources. (references) | |
India | Ex-Im Bank helps finance the overseas sales of U.S. goods and services. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | Check the fee structure prior to placing any calls overseas. (references) |
Nepal | The Medicare/Medicaid Program does not provide for payment overseas. (references) | |
Maldives | Supplemental coverage that specifically covers overseas treatment has proven useful. (references) | |
Women | Barbados | Children born overseas and out of wedlock to Barbadian men are considered citizens. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Men may study overseas; women may do so only if accompanied by a spouse or an immediate male relative. (references) | |
Australia | Prostitution is legal or decriminalized and occurs throughout the country; however, child sex tourism is prohibited within the country and overseas. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Kingdom | A third NGO, Womankind Worldwide, works with overseas partners on trafficking. (references) |
Philippines | Several NGO's seek to protect the rights of the country's 7.4 million workers employed overseas. (references) | |
France | The Constitution's provisions for trade union rights extend to the country's overseas departments and territories. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bill Maher | Well, I don't know. You know, the military did a great job overseas. That's the military. I mean, to tell your generals to point to a map of Afghanistan and say, destroy that, I think is something Al Gore could have done also. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Our national safety and the security of the world will require substantial armed forces, particularly in overseas service. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Those strengths are available to sustain a President of either party-to support his progressive efforts both at home and overseas. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This slows our economic growth, it lowers the value of the dollar overseas, and it aggravates unemployment and inflation here at home. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | But over the past year and a half, financial turmoil overseas has put that growth at risk. |
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| "Overseas" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 71.27% of the time. "Overseas" is used about 3,227 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 71.27% | 2,300 | 3,862 |
| Adverb (general) | 28.48% | 919 | 7,825 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.25% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,227 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | China Overseas Land & Investment Limited | Indonesia | Wicaksana Overseas International Tbk. P.T. |
| Singapore | Overseas Union Bank Limited | South Africa | African & Overseas Enterprises Limited |
| United Kingdom | Anglo & Overseas Trust Plc | USA | Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "overseas": from overseas ♦ overseas cap ♦ overseas company ♦ overseas countries ♦ overseas country ♦ overseas dividend ♦ overseas market ♦ overseas tax ♦ overseas telegram ♦ overseas territories ♦ overseas trade. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "overseas": overseas-based, overseas-darkie-star, overseas-owned, overseas-player. | |
Ending with "overseas": non-overseas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "overseas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i jashtëm (adventitious, apparent, exterior, extern, external, foreign, out, outdoor, outer, outlying, outside, outward, oversea), i huaj (alien, exotic, extern, external, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, gringo, interlude, outlandish, outside, oversea, peregrine, strange, stranger, tramontane). (various references) | |
Arabic | من عبر البحار, ما وراء البحار, واقع عير البحار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | външен (adventitious, adventive, exterior, external, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, formal, inorganic, ostentatious, outdoor, outer, out-of-door, outside, outward, over, overall, oversea, showy, surface), в чужбина (abroad, oversea), отвъд океана (over sea, oversea), отвъд морето (over sea, oversea), за чужбина (oversea), през море (oversea). (various references) | |
Chinese | 國外 (abroad, external, foreign), 海外 (abroad), 国外. (various references) | |
Czech | zahranièní (external, foreign, outlandish), zámořský (deep sea, oversea, transatlantic, transmarine), za mořem, v zámoří, přes moře, do zámoří. (various references) | |
Danish | oversoeiske lande og territorier (OCTs, overseas countries and territories), oversoeisk marked (overseas market), oversøiske territorier (overseas territories), OT,oversøiske områder associerede med Fællesskabets medlemsstater (overseas territories of Member States of the Community), OLT (OCTs, Overseas Countries and Territories), virksomhed registreret,virksomhed (foreign company, overseas company), udenrigshandel (external trade, foreign trade, overseas trade), udenlandsk skat (overseas tax), udenlandsk registreret virksomhed (foreign company, overseas company), som er sindet at bekraefte den solidaritet,der knytter Europa og de oversoeiske lande sammen (intending to confirm the solidarity which binds Europe and the overseas countries), handel med tredjelande (external trade, foreign trade, overseas trade), dividenden hidrørende fra udenlandske aktiebesiddelser (overseas dividend), container til oversoeisk transport (overseas container, transcontainer). (various references) | |
Dutch | overzeese markt (overseas market), OD (French Overseas Departments), wensende,de verbondenheid van Europa met de landen overzee te bevestigen (intending to confirm the solidarity which binds Europe and the overseas countries), TOM,gebieden overzee van de Lid-Staten van de Gemeenschap (overseas territories of Member States of the Community), Living Apart Together Overseas (LATO, Living Apart Together Overseas), LGO (OCTs, Overseas Countries and Territories), LATO (LATO, Living Apart Together Overseas), landen en gebieden overzee (OCTs, overseas countries and territories), gebieden overzee (overseas territories), container voor intercontinentaal vervoer (overseas container, transcontainer), buitenlandse maatschappij (foreign company, overseas company), buitenlandse handel (external trade, foreign trade, overseas trade), buitenlands dividend (overseas dividend), belasting in het buitenland (overseas tax). (various references) | |
Finnish | merentakainen (transmarine). (various references) | |
French | outre-mer, transatlantique, extérieur, d'outre-mer, étranger, l'étranger. (various references) | |
German | überseeisch (transoceanic). (various references) | |
Greek | στο εξωτερικό (abroad), υπερπόντιοσ (transmarine), υπερπόντιος, υπερθαλάσσιοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעבר לים, מ"י ת "ים, חוץ לארץ (abroad). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tengeren túl (beyond the sea, over the sea, oversea). (various references) | |
Indonesian | seberang lautan. (various references) | |
Italian | oltremarino (transmarine), oltremare, straniero (alien, foreign, foreigner, outlandish, strange), estero (external, foreign, foreign countries, foreign country), d'oltremare, all'estero (abroad). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 在外 (abroad), 海外 (abroad, foreign), 外国部隊 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がい"くぶたい, ざいがい (abroad), かいがい (abroad, foreign). (various references) | |
Korean | 해외로 (Abroad). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | overseasay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ultramar (abroad, ultramarine), para além do mar (oversea), no ultramar (oversea), em país estrangeiro (oversea). (various references) | |
Romanian | dincolo de mare (oversea). (various references) | |
Russian | заграничный (cross-border), заморский (outlandish, oversea, peregrin, transmarine, ultramarine), за рубежом зарубежный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prekomorski (maritime, oversea, seaborne, transmarine, ultramarine), preko mora (oversea). (various references) | |
Spanish | en ultramar (oversea), de ultramar (oversea), allende el mar (oversea). (various references) | |
Swedish | utomlands (abroad). (various references) | |
Turkish | denizaşırı ülkelere, denizaşırı ülkelerde, denizaşırı (oversea, transmarine, ultramarine). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | через море (oversea), закордонний (foreign, oversea), заокеанський (oversea, transoceanic), заморський (outland, outlandish, oversea, ultramarine), за кордоном (abroad, oversea), за кордон (oversea), за морем (oversea). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | transmaritanus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Overseas" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oversman, Ovesissi, rogersias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "overseas" (pronounced ō"versē"z) |
| 4 | -er s ē" z | underseas. |
| 3 | -s ē" z | Cees, foresees, lessees, licensees, seas, sees, seize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-o-r-s-s-v" | |
-1 letter: oversea, serosae. | |
-2 letters: averse, erases, eroses, reaves, sarees, savers, savors, serosa, serves, servos, severs, soaves, soever, verses, versos. | |
-3 letters: arose, arses, arvos, avers, eases, eaves, erase, erose, erses, oases, oaves, overs, rases, raves, reave, roses, roves, saree, saros, saver, saves, savor, sears, seers, seres, serve, servo, sever, soars, soave, soras, sores, vases, veers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-o-r-s-s-v" | |
+1 letter: oversales, oversaves. | |
+2 letters: eavesdrops, overassert, overpassed, overpasses, oversauces, overstates, votaresses. | |
+3 letters: gravestones, observables, observances, overasserts, overdosages, overmasters, overpraises, overspreads. | |
+4 letters: abortiveness, adenoviruses, asseveration, conversances, nonassertive, overanalyses, overasserted, overemphases, overemphasis, overharvests, overissuance, provableness, ravenousness, reservations, restoratives, savorinesses, slaveholders. | |
+5 letters: asseverations, conservancies, conservatives, conservatizes, conversancies, eavesdroppers, eviscerations, extraversions, favorableness, festivalgoers, inobservances, intravenouses, marvelousness, nonaggressive, normativeness, observatories, operativeness, overasserting, overassertion, overassertive, overeagerness, overestimates, overissuances, overpersuades, oversaturates, preservations, removableness, superovulates, variousnesses, veraciousness. | |
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