spin-off

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See also: spin off and spinoff

English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Deverbal from 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 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.
  2. An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.
    Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology.
  3. A by-product.
  4. (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.
  5. The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
    Synonym: hive-off
    Hyponym: carveout

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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)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English spin-off

Pronunciation

 

Noun

spin-off m (invariable)

  1. (fiction) spin-off

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English spin-off. Attested since 1966.

Noun

spin-off c

  1. a spin-off
    Serien är en spin-off från filmen
    The series is a spin-off from the movie

Declension

Declension of spin-off
nominative genitive
singular indefinite spin-off spin-offs
definite spin-offen spin-offens
plural indefinite spin-offer spin-offers
definite spin-offerna spin-offernas

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