adjective/adverb · academic

overseas

UK/ˌəʊvəˈsiːz/US/ˌoʊvərˈsiːz/o·ver·SEAS

Band 6-7task2speaking

in or to a foreign country or countries; relating to foreign countries

Examples

Universities actively recruit overseas students to diversify their campuses.

Overseas investment has increased in emerging markets over the past decade.

The company established an overseas subsidiary to manage its Asian operations.

Band 8 sentence

Academic collaborations with overseas institutions have significantly widened the project's comparative scope.

Collocations

  • overseas students
  • overseas investment
  • overseas markets

Word family

overseas adjective/adverboverseas (as noun, plural sometimes 'overseas operations') noun/phrase

Common mistakes

She moved to overseas to study.She moved overseas to study.

They have many overseas's partners.They have many overseas partners.

Say it for a higher band

5abroad6foreign7+overseas

Synonyms

abroad

Easily confused

abroad

Many researchers choose to study abroad to gain international experience.

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