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Short trip cancelled? That’s the incidental result
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spin-off
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Wikipedia
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Spin-off , spin off , or spinoff may refer to: Businesses and products : Corporate spin-off , a type of corporate transaction forming a new company or entity Government spin-off , civilian goods which are the result of military or governmental research ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 offshoot. 2 An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off. 3 by-product. 4 A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same equivalent setting, often in a different aspect. 5 The formation of a subsidiary ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ "Frasier" was a spin-off from "Cheers." ▪ One of the main spin-offs for countries that host the Olympic Games is increased business for hotels, restaurants, and theatres. ▪ Research into lasers has had important spin-offs ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a product made during the manufacture of something else [syn: by-product , byproduct ]
Usage examples of spin-off.
Spin-Offs: An Amalgamated Youth, a Trilobal Psychologist, a Mad Cartoonist.
Fandom itself, with its spin-off cults and marketing mini-empires, with its Trekkies and Pern freaks, with its Scientologists and fanzine fans, with its Dungeons and its Dragons and its Prune World Messiahs, have long since become expressions of the collective schlockgeist of SF rather than anything of our willing literary creation.
However, we desperately need donations to do copyright research, cataloging, to hire librarians and Library and Information Science professors, to support the Project Gutenberg spin-offs in other languages and countries, not to mention mundane things such as phone and utility bills, computers, drives, backups, etc.
In the beginning Archduchy scientists made excuses for their cooperation with the military, extolling the benefits of spin-offs to the civilian sector and emphasizing that the technologies they were developing were morally neutral and could be used for peaceful purposes as well as for war.
In Keith's version of it, in Keith's spin-off of it, the star-crossed lover looks like an old chancer whose steed has fallen ten yards from the post.
He sips his Berlinerweisse slowly as she launches into a long, stilted explanation of how Arianespace is a diversified dot-com with orbital aspirations, a full range of merchandising spin-offs, Bond movie sets, and a promising hotel chain in LEO.
This leads to all sorts of spin-off ideas: false testimony by suborned sewing machines who accuse innocent men unfairly.
At the height of the Star Wars phenomenon, spin-off merchandising had accounted for a quarter of the toy industry’.
We've had trading cards, resin statues, action figures, stuffed toys, jewelry, watches, an in-depth guide to the series (The Sandman Companion by Hy Bender), a prose sequel of sorts (The Dream Hunters, Gaiman's collaboration with Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano), an ongoing spin-off comic (The Dreaming), an anthology of Sandman stories by other authors, co-edited by Gaiman (The Sandman: Book of Dreams), and even a collection of the covers of the complete run of the original series by Dave McKean (Dust Covers).
The X-ray telescope we just orbited was a direct spin-off of H-Bomb research.