Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spin off

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English

Syllables: spin off
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"a line of merchandise spun off from a TV series"
"For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O."
"Halks-Miller’s discovery fired the starting gun on the race to develop a diagnostic blood test. Illumina spun off a new company, Grail, to develop the test, raising more than $2bn from investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the Chinese company Tencent."

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

spins off (present, singular) spinning off (participle, present) spun off (participle, past) spun off (past)

Derived Forms

spinoff

Phrases

spin-off

Frequently Paired Words

spin down spin out spin up split off

Questions

What does spin off mean?: To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work.

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