offshore rig

1. 1.

   drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially

   Synonymsdrilling platform

   Broaderdrill rig

Questions about offshore rig

What does offshore rig mean?

offshore rig means "drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially".

What is another word for offshore rig?

Close synonyms include drilling platform. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is offshore rig a common word?

offshore rig is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.