spin-off
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- 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 Metropolitan spin-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.
- An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.
- Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology.
- A by-product.
- (fiction) 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.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]offshoot — see offshoot
incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off
by-product — see by-product
fictional work
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formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed
See also
[edit]- (business): carveout (partial spin-off in a corporate reorganization)
- (literature): subseries
- tie-in (work of fiction based on an original media property)
References
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[edit]Portuguese
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[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English spin-off
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔfi
Noun
[edit]spin-off m (invariable)
Swedish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English spin-off. Attested since 1966.
Noun
[edit]spin-off c
- a spin-off
- Serien är en spin-off från filmen
- The series is a spin-off from the movie
Declension
[edit]Declension of spin-off
References
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