off-siteadj.adv.
/ˌɒfˈsʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈɔfˈsaɪt/, /ˈɑfˈsaɪt/ A. adj.
That is not on a site; situated or occurring away from a site.
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the world > space > place > absence > [adjective] > absent or away from a site
off-site1939
1939 C. W. Short & R. S. Brown Public Buildings x. 674 The indirect or off-site labor cost on the completed Non-federal buildings will be approximately $410,202,479.
1944 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 9 541 On-site and off-site labor requirements in prefabricated and conventional housing construction.
1970 Guardian 22 Aug. 2/4 Underground nuclear explosions in Nevada..would have negligible off-site effects.
1995 Environmental Performance 1994 (ICI Group Statement) 4/2 ICI will try to eliminate all off-site disposal of environmentally harmful wastes.
B. adv.
Off a site; away from a particular site.
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1939 J. K. Williams Grants-in-aid under Public Wks. Admin v. 197 (note) Concrete might be mixed off-site.
1971 Real Estate Rev. Fall 49/1 They are to be distinguished from pre-cuts, which involve materials cut to proper size off-site and then conventionally constructed on site.
2001 Independent 7 Feb. (Business Review section) 1/5 InTechnology's solution automatically compresses and encrypts data and transports it offsite to a secure data centre where it is held on disk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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