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单词 spin-off
释义

spin-off

See also: spin off and spinoff

English

Alternative forms

  • spinoff

Etymology

From the verb phrase spin off.

Noun

spin-off (plural spin-offs)

  1. An offshoot.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 51-52:
      We are about to broach the fraught saga of the Circle Line, but there is another Metropolitanspin-off that comes first, one that has always appealed to me by the baleful beauty of its name: the City Widened Lines or 'The Widened Lines' for short.
  2. An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.
    Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology.
  3. By-product.
  4. A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect.
    "Frasier" was a spin-off from the sitcom "Cheers".
  5. The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
    Synonym: hive-off

Synonyms

  • derivate
  • descendant

Translations

See also

  • (business): carveout (partial spin-off in a corporate reorganization)
  • (literature): subseries
  • tie-in (work of fiction based on an original media property)

References

  • spin-off on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • off spin, offspin
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