spin-off

See also: spin off and spinoff

English

Alternative forms

• spinoff

Etymology

From the verb phrase 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. By-product.
4. 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".

5. The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.

Synonyms

• derivate
• descendant

Translations

offshoot — see offshoot

incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副产品 (zh) (fùchǎnpǐn)

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• Finnish: lisähyöty, sivutuote (fi), spin off
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

by-product — see by-product

fictional work

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衍生作品 (yǎnshēng zuòpǐn), 番外篇 (fānwàipiān)

• Esperanto: kromprodukto
• Finnish: spin off; spin off -ohjelma (TV program)
• French: spin-off (fr) m
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• German: Ableger (de) m
• Japanese: 外伝 (gaiden)
• Russian: спин-о́фф (ru) m (spin-óff)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分流企業／分流企业 (fēnliú qǐyè), 分流企业 (fēnliú qǐyè)

• Finnish: spinnaaminen (formation); irrokki, spin off, spin off -yritys (company)
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• German: Ableger (de) m, Spin-off n or m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• (literature): subseries

References

• spin-off on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• off spin, offspin