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overseas adjective adverb

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Definition

in, from or to other countries
We need to open up overseas markets.
There are a lot of overseas students in Cambridge.
My brother is a student overseas.
Many more people go/travel/live/work overseas these days.

(Definition of overseas adjective/adverb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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