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)
- 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.
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- An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.
- Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology.
- By-product.
- 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".
- 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
offshoot — see offshoot
incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off
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by-product — see by-product
fictional work
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formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed
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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