spin-off

See also: spin off and spinoff

English

Alternative forms

• spinoff

Etymology

Deverbal from spin off.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspɪn.ɔf/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈspɪn.ɒf/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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^[1], →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

Synonyms

• derivate
• descendant
• derivative

Derived terms

• spinquel

Related terms

• spindown
• spinout
• spin-up
• spinup

Descendants

• → Russian: спин-о́фф (spin-óff)

Translations

offshoot — see offshoot

incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副产品 (zh) (fùchǎnpǐn)

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

by-product — see by-product

fictional work

• Catalan: esqueix (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Esperanto: kromprodukto
• Finnish: spin off; spin off -ohjelma (TV program); oheisteos, sivuteos (single work); oheissarja, sivusarja (series)
• French: spin-off (fr) m
• German: Ableger (de) m
• Japanese: 外伝 (ja) (gaiden), スピンオフ (ja) (supin-ofu)
• Korean: 스핀오프 (seupinopeu)
• Malay: cerita ranting (especially in wayang kulit)
• Polish: spin-off (pl) m
• Portuguese: spin-off (pt) m
• Russian: спин-о́фф (ru) m (spin-óff)
• Spanish: obra derivada f, esqueje (es) m
• Swedish: spin-off (sv) c

formation of a subsidiary, the company so formed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分流企業 / 分流企业 (fēnliú qǐyè)

• Finnish: irrottaminen (fi), spinnaaminen (formation); irrokki, irrotettu yritys, oheisyritys, spin off, spin off -yritys (company)
• German: Ableger (de) m, Spin-off n or m
• Greek: τεχνοβλαστός (el) m (technovlastós)
• Polish: spółka wydzielona f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: spin-off (sv) c

See also

• (business): carveout (partial spin-off in a corporate reorganization)
• (literature): subseries
• tie-in (work of fiction based on an original media property)

References

• spin-off on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• off spin, offspin

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

English spin offdeverb.

English spin-offubor.

Polish spin-off

Unadapted borrowing from English spin-off.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspi.nɔf/
• Rhymes: -inɔf
• Syllabification: spin-‧off

Noun

spin-off m inan

1. (fiction) spin-off (fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same setting, often in a different aspect)
2. (business) spin-off, hive-off (formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed)

Declension

Declension of spin-off

	singular	plural
nominative	spin-off	spin-offy
genitive	spin-offu	spin-offów
dative	spin-offowi	spin-offom
accusative	spin-off	spin-offy
instrumental	spin-offem	spin-offami
locative	spin-offie	spin-offach
vocative	spin-offie	spin-offy

Further reading

• “spin-off”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English spin offdeverb.

English spin-offubor.

Portuguese spin-off

Unadapted borrowing from English spin-off.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.piˈnɔ.fi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.piˈnɔ.fi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃ.piˈnɔ.fi/
  • (Gaúcho) IPA^(key): /is.piˈnɔ.fe/

• Rhymes: -ɔfi

Noun

spin-off m (invariable)

1. (fiction) spin-off

Further reading

• “spin-off”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Swedish

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

Declension

Declension of spin-off

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	spin-off	spin-offs
	definite	spin-offen	spin-offens
plural	indefinite	spin-offer	spin-offers
	definite	spin-offerna	spin-offernas

References

• “spin-off”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “spin-off”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)