spin-off
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spin-off (plural spin-offs)
- Offshoot.
- An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.
- Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology.
- By-product.
- A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same equivalent setting, often in a different aspect.
- Like most spin-offs, I enjoy Fraiser more than the original show.
- The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
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- (literature): subseries
