spin-off (redirected from Spin-offs)

spin·off or spin-off  (spnôf, -f)

n.

1.

a. A divestiture by a corporation of a division or subsidiary by issuing to stockholders shares in a new company set up to continue the operations of the division or subsidiary.

b. The new company formed by such a divestiture.

2. Something, such as a product, that is derived from something larger and more or less unrelated; a byproduct.

3. Something derived from an earlier work, such as a television show starring a character who had a popular minor role in another show.

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spin-off

Noun

1. a product or development that unexpectedly results from activities designed to achieve something else: new energy sources could occur as a spin-off from the space effort

2. a television series involving some of the characters from an earlier successful series

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

spin-off - a product made during the manufacture of something else by-product, byproduct product, production - an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production"

Translations

spin-off [ˈspɪnɔf] n → derivado, producto secundario

spin-off [ˈspɪnɔf] n → sous-produit m; avantage inattendu

spin-off [ˈspɪnɔf] spin n (fig) → Nebenprodukt nt

spin-off [ˈspɪnɔf] n → applicazione f secondaria