单词 | spinoff |
释义 | spinoff (spɪnɔf) Word forms: spinoffs 1. countable noun A spinoff is an unexpected but useful or valuable result of an activity that was designed to achieve something else. The company put out a report on commercial spinoffs from its research. 2. countable noun A spinoff is a book, film, or television series that comes after and is related to a successful book, film, or television series. The film is a spinoff from the TV series "Sabrina The Teenage Witch." spinoff in American English (ˈspɪnˌɔf) noun 1. a. the divestiture by a corporation of some of its assets or operations, accomplished by distributing to its stockholders shares of a new company formed to assume control over the divested parts b. the divestiture of a subsidiary by distributing its shares in this way c. the new company or subsidiary so divested 2. a secondary benefit, product, development, etc., as a television series built around a character, situation, etc. in another series In other languages |
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