off-site

adjective or adverb

: not located or occurring at the site of a particular activity

Examples of off-site in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Banking executives say that ensuring off-site workers comply with regulations will be too difficult and too costly as the industry’s watchdog returns to pre-COVID norms for monitoring staff and inspecting workplaces. Clay Chandler, Fortune, 24 May 2024 Stays include ample on-property activities such as paddleboarding, kayaking, and snorkeling, as well as off-site excursions, ranging from catamaran tours to kite surfing. Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2024 The company also offers subsidies for employees who want to enroll their children in an off-site KinderCare closer to their homes. Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2024 The space will also be available for corporate workshops, mini-retreats, and team-building off-site meetings. Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2024 After extracting samples and analyzing DNA from them at laboratories off-site, the researchers found that different micro-organisms had flourished in different parts of the same cave. Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024 Think everything from daily housekeeping to private chefs, childcare, a fleet of luxury vehicles, and off-site excursions. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 May 2024 Specific off-site improvements include a new traffic signal, landscaped medians, a buffered bike lane and a two-way cycle track on the south side of Friars Road. Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2024 Stephanie Llanes, who was a teen-age reggaetón performer in Puerto Rico before going to law school, recalled her first P.D. off-site meeting. Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of off-site was in 1939

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“Off-site.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/off-site. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.

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