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Meanings of oversea in English

Being or passing over or across the sea.

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Usage of oversea in English
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The British government hated it because it cut into their oversea communications.
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Rome went down before the Northmen, and England had its oversea conqueror.
Boy Scouts on Motorcycles; Or, With the Flying Squadron
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He made ready his messenger, and sent for his kindred from oversea.
Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut
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Aye, but she died when I was little, and lies buried oversea.
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American believers' isolated oversea teaching enterprises hitherto tentative, intermittent, now at end.
Messages to America / Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed ...
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The Company mainly operates its businesses within domestic and oversea markets.
Reuters
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We bore oversea our prayers and our songs; they are ever the same.
Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country
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Newfoundland had set the pace for the other clans from oversea.
My Second Year of the War
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Here comes a Russian count oversea, and goes mad in tavern.
The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 3
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Two million oversea Huns of fighting age were hindered from joining the enemy.
A Straight Deal; Or, The Ancient Grudge
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England, in her vast oversea domains and possessions, wants rounding up.
The Secrets of the German War Office
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So Iubdan bade them release him, and he fared away to Erinn oversea.
The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Irel...
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Henry VII was himself an oversea trader, and a very good one too.
Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
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When the soldiers oversea talked generalities at all it was usually of such topics.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
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A few minor privileges had been accorded to these oversea dwellers, it is true.
South America
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My secret information is that several regiments are ordered oversea.
The Winds of the World
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