overseasadjective, adverb
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈsiːz/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈsiːz/B2 in, from, or to other countries:
We need to open up overseas markets.
There are a lot of overseas students studying at our college.
My brother is a student overseas.
Many more people go/travel/live/work overseas these days.
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- The company has been successful in penetrating overseas markets this year.
- If you were offered an overseas posting, would you take it?
- After he'd served his apprenticeship he found work overseas.
- The airline halved its overseas service because of a sharp reduction in traffic.
- Our firm does a lot of business with overseas customers.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation
- Afro
- citizenship
- compatriot
- countrywide
- homegrown
- homeland
- internation
- land
- mother country
- motherland
- nation-state
- national
- offshore
- soil
- South Sudan
- state
- state-controlled
- statehood
- stateless
- subject
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