hive off

hive  (hv)

n.

1.

a. A structure for housing bees, especially honeybees.

b. A colony of bees living in such a structure.

2. A place swarming with activity.

v. hived, hiv·ing, hives

v.tr.

1. To collect into a hive.

2. To store (honey) in a hive.

3. To store up; accumulate.

v.intr.

1. To enter and occupy a beehive.

2. To live with many others in close association.

Phrasal Verb:

hive off

To set apart from a group: hived off the department into another division.

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[Middle English, from Old English hf.]

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hive off

vb (adverb)

1. to transfer or be transferred from a larger group or unit

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (usually tr) to transfer (profitable activities of a nationalized industry) back to private ownership

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	hive off - remove from a group and make separate; "The unit was hived off from its parent company" discriminate, single out, separate - treat differently on the basis of sex or race
	2.	hive off - withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions divert draw off, take out, withdraw, draw - remove (a commodity) from (a supply source); "She drew $2,000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"

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hive off

verb (Informal) sell (off), dispose of, put up for sale Klockner plans to hive off its loss-making steel business.

Translations

? hive off

vt sep department, company → ausgliedern; staff → abbauen; work → vergeben (→ to an +acc); the branch could be hived off into a separate company → die Filiale könnte als eigene Firma verselbstständigt werden

vi

(= branch out) → sich absetzen

(inf, = slip away) → abschwirren (inf)