spin-off

Alternative forms

• spinoff

Etymology

Deverbal from 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. A by-product.
4. (fiction) 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".

   • 2023 October 27, “Fantastic Beasts: JK Rowling franchise has been ‘parked’, director says”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates.

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

   Synonym: hive-off

   Hyponym: carveout

References

• spin-off on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• off spin, offspin

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English spin-off

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔfi

Noun

spin-off m (invariable)

1. (fiction) spin-off

Alternative forms

• spinoff

Etymology

Borrowed from English spin-off. Attested since 1966.

Noun

spin-off c

1. a spin-off

   Serien är en spin-off från filmen

   The series is a spin-off from the movie

References

• spin-off in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• spin-off in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)