spin-off
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Deverbal from spin off.
Noun
- 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.
- 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".
- 2023 October 27, “Fantastic Beasts: JK Rowling franchise has been ‘parked’, director says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates.
- The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
Synonyms
Translations
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
Swedish
Alternative forms
Declension
| Declension of spin-off | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | spin-off | spin-offen | spin-offer | spin-offerna |
| Genitive | spin-offs | spin-offens | spin-offers | spin-offernas |
References
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