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How to pronounce “offing”
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Pronunciation guide for offing
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of offing with real speech in context.
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History was in the offing, people at the meeting believed.
- Definition summary
- (nautical) The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.
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How to pronounce offing
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History was in the offing, people at the meeting believed.
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A Deep Dive Into “offing”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (nautical) The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.
- (nautical) The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.
- (figuratively) The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing.
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of off
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