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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
offset
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carbon offsetting
▪ There are websites that let you buy carbon offsets.
offset mortgage
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
partially
▪ This was partially offset by a 30 percent increase in public-sector wages and those of the military.
▪ Land reclamation could partially offset that loss, but the feasibility of such conversion is questionable because of the huge costs involved.
▪ However, this was partially offset by related expenditure reductions.
▪ Since young workers typically earn lower salaries, their greater numbers would be partially offset by their lower earnings.
▪ Furthermore, the price rises were partially offset by increases in compensation payments on top of wages and pensions.
partly
▪ A downturn in one part of the world has always been partly offset by growth elsewhere.
▪ That was partly offset by a 27. 4 % increase in overseas deliveries.
▪ The obvious contradiction that this created between Reagan as campaigner and as governor was partly offset by compensatory reductions in property taxes.
▪ Earnings fell short of analysts' expectations, however, as increased problem loans partly offset revenue gains.
▪ Any decline in water loss might also be partly offset by the resulting increase in atmospheric water vapour pressure deficit.
▪ These were partly offset by grants and capital allowances totalling £9.2 million.
▪ Such allowances are paid to employees to partly offset the expense of moving home.
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ The rise of on-site generation, however, would offset this particular advantage.
▪ But Weld has said he will now accept them to offset the fund-raising advantage of Sen.
▪ This can be a significant amount, which may offset many of the advantages of leasing.
benefit
▪ Under the supplementary benefit system, single parents could earn additional income and only part of this was offset against their benefit.
▪ Any increase in national insurance benefits are offset against the additional benefit that claimants obtain from income support.
cost
▪ Budget the cost through fixed monthly payments and - depending on the project - offset some of the cost through tax relief.
▪ Ford may offset some of its costs by selling ads to run on the Internet service its employees will use.
▪ The developers say the housing investment would offset the cost of rescuing the convent from dereliction.
▪ Banks claim surcharges are needed to help offset the cost of installation and maintenance.
▪ Traditionally there is a new-price premium on diesels which offsets cheaper running costs.
▪ We have calculated a $ 3 per household recommendation to offset these additional costs incurred during the holidays.
▪ And the central bank collects a premium for selling the option, which helps to offset the costs of intervention.
▪ In equilibrium this higher marginal revenue exactly offsets transportation costs.
costs
▪ More importantly, they were able to offset totally any child-minding costs they incurred while going out to work.
▪ Ford may offset some of its costs by selling ads to run on the Internet service its employees will use.
▪ Traditionally there is a new-price premium on diesels which offsets cheaper running costs.
▪ We have calculated a $ 3 per household recommendation to offset these additional costs incurred during the holidays.
▪ And the central bank collects a premium for selling the option, which helps to offset the costs of intervention.
▪ In equilibrium this higher marginal revenue exactly offsets transportation costs.
▪ Egg hopes by selling funds it can offset the costs of luring customers with unprofitable savings rates.
▪ There are certain supplementary sources of revenue which might help to offset some of the costs.
cut
▪ But he failed miserably in getting lawmakers to pass offsetting spending cuts, aggravating two decades of deficits.
▪ Driven by budget politics, lawmakers are looking for a way to offset politically popular tax cuts.
▪ The deficit hawks also won an agreement to find offsetting cuts for any eventual increase in committee costs.
decline
▪ However, this improvement has been insufficient to offset the decline in other areas.
demand
▪ Sales of bread and sandwiches fell, but were offset by buoyant demand for more expensive sweet lines such as cakes and doughnuts.
▪ A 0.8% increase in distribution to industrial customers offset a fall in demand from domestic and commercial customers.
▪ However, this is offset by the demands that are made on spatial analysis and modelling methodology.
effect
▪ Its successor will be better, and contain extra lenses that should offset the effects of the bungled mirror.
▪ None is big enough or bold enough to offset the negative effects of the financial collapse.
▪ But cost controls have helped offset the worst effects of the downturn, says chairman Sir Roy Watts.
▪ Coordinated monetary and fiscal policies put in place to offset the effects of the stock market crash quickly accelerated the global economy.
▪ Despite the evidence, the Conservative government in the 1980s has been determined to lower income taxation to offset its disincentive effects.
▪ The turnaround also was partly due to sharp cost-cutting to offset the effects of failed new products.
▪ This is useful since it offsets the effect of IC1 itself to some extent.
▪ The government has instruments, particularly monetary and debt policy, with which it can offset the aggregate effects of taxes.
gain
▪ What is less certain is whether they have been, or will be, offset by corresponding gains.
▪ Earnings fell short of analysts' expectations, however, as increased problem loans partly offset revenue gains.
▪ Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care.
growth
▪ A downturn in one part of the world has always been partly offset by growth elsewhere.
▪ The problems faced by the agricultural sector were offset by continued growth in the non-traditional manufacturing areas such as garments.
impact
▪ But until April, lower interest rates failed to offset the impact of the recession and house prices continued to fall.
▪ On the other hand, the many other activities of London tended to offset the impact of a manufacturing recession.
increase
▪ Such stagnation as there was in income percapita was offset by the increase in numbers.
▪ The question is, will the softening demand be able to offset the increase in supply.
▪ Any decline in water loss might also be partly offset by the resulting increase in atmospheric water vapour pressure deficit.
▪ Furthermore, the price rises were partially offset by increases in compensation payments on top of wages and pensions.
lack
▪ Experience may offset a lack of access to sophisticated and costly specialist skills.
loss
▪ A strong merchant banking contribution was more than offset by losses on investment management and stockbroking and some heavy loan provisions.
▪ Land reclamation could partially offset that loss, but the feasibility of such conversion is questionable because of the huge costs involved.
▪ Membership dropped by 23,000 last year to 265,000, although officials say additional members attracted this year has almost offset that loss.
▪ But it seems, nothing is gained without an offsetting loss.
▪ The plan calls for massive reductions in logging coupled with an aid package to offset job losses.
▪ The company will offset the losses by selling stocks and real estate.
▪ However, if you do this, be sure to take more club than normal to offset the loss in distance.
▪ The mortgage traders offset the losses with profits they had squirreled away for a rainy day.
market
▪ Competition policy aims to offset market failures arising from scale economies and market power.
▪ Industrial policy is designed to offset other sources of market failure which arise in the production process.
price
▪ Workers would receive a single bonus payment equivalent to US$27 to offset the price rises.
▪ He announced increases in wages and pensions to offset the price rises.
problem
▪ To offset the problem, the teachers agreed to salary cuts!
▪ Yasuo Fukuda, the government spokesman, yesterday denied that the government planned any measures to offset this problem.
▪ Chairman John Reeve said Severfield has taken out credit insurance to offset future bad debt problems.
▪ There are a number of ways in which a surveyor can attempt to offset the problems usually associated with claims.
▪ A close relationship with the father can offset some of the problems.
profit
▪ If the doubled level of wartime was a more significant imposition, it was to a degree offset by greater farming profits.
▪ Any remaining loss may then be carried forward to offset profits in the succeeding fifteen years.
▪ Other reforms include the abolition of landowners' right to offset farming losses against profits from other business.
▪ The mortgage traders offset the losses with profits they had squirreled away for a rainy day.
▪ Charlotte, North Carolina-based First Union earnings rose 21 percent, as higher fees offset sluggish lending profit.
rate
▪ Guidebooks advise travellers to bring their fully duty-free quota, to offset the official rate of exchange.
reduction
▪ The obvious contradiction that this created between Reagan as campaigner and as governor was partly offset by compensatory reductions in property taxes.
▪ However, the increase would be offset by future reductions in planned station hardware and related programs.
▪ These expenses would be offset by a reduction in unit labour costs.
▪ However, this was partially offset by related expenditure reductions.
▪ So increases in state spending were largely offset by corresponding reductions by taxpayers.
revenue
▪ For both partnerships and companies all properly incurred expenses of the trade can be offset against revenue when computing taxable profit.
▪ Earnings fell short of analysts' expectations, however, as increased problem loans partly offset revenue gains.
sale
▪ They more than offset weaker export sales and a slower buildup of inventories of unsold goods.
tax
▪ There are certain expenses that you can offset against tax, which you should put down on your tax form.
▪ Driven by budget politics, lawmakers are looking for a way to offset politically popular tax cuts.
▪ Mortgage relief is available only up to £30,000 while childcare expenses can not be offset against tax.
▪ You pay tax on the compensation, but the corporation saves an offsetting amount of tax by deducting the compensation payment.
▪ The tax should be fiscally neutral, that is, offset by tax cuts in other areas.
▪ Aside from the risk and complications, fees offset most of the tax break.
■ VERB
help
▪ But cost controls have helped offset the worst effects of the downturn, says chairman Sir Roy Watts.
▪ Banks claim surcharges are needed to help offset the cost of installation and maintenance.
▪ And the central bank collects a premium for selling the option, which helps to offset the costs of intervention.
▪ Traders said domestic institutions are selling stock in order to raise money to pad their bottom lines and help offset bad loans.
▪ There are certain supplementary sources of revenue which might help to offset some of the costs.
▪ There, governors were aggressively courting companies like Rohr to help offset high unemployment and rural poverty.
▪ Even a small amount of power from that engine would have helped to offset the tremendous drag of the wheels hanging out.
use
▪ Non-members could buy tickets on the door and the ticket money would be used to offset the cost of future concerts.
▪ No attempt should be made to use monetary policy to offset any disturbances which may occur from time to time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ $3000 was spent in US schools to offset the disadvantages of about 6 million school children.
▪ Profits in GM's computer services were not enough to offset the huge losses in its automotive operations.
▪ Streaks of blond in his hair offset his deep tan.
▪ The savings on staff wages are offset by the increased maintenance costs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chairman John Reeve said Severfield has taken out credit insurance to offset future bad debt problems.
▪ His gravitas, offset with a flickering irony, gives the production a strong moral centre.
▪ Suprise traumatized her, offsetting the sting of the slap.
▪ That was partly offset by a 27. 4 % increase in overseas deliveries.
▪ The impact of the savings this year will be offset by investments in several businesses.
▪ The obvious contradiction that this created between Reagan as campaigner and as governor was partly offset by compensatory reductions in property taxes.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Circuit to adjust offset with no effect on input offset or input offset drift.
▪ If such estimates are correct, then offset schemes would be impractical on a large scale.
▪ Letterset a printing process combining offset printing with a letterpress relief printing plate.
▪ The needles are then slightly offset.
▪ The stitch lines are offset to prevent cold spots occurring.
▪ There were seven offset litho printers in the country.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offset

Offset \Off"set`\, n. [Off + set. Cf. Set-off.] In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something; as:

  1. (Bot.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.

  2. A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off.

  3. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.

  4. (Arch.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also set-off.

  5. (Surv.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.

  6. (Mech.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.

  7. (Print.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor; an unitended transfer of an image from one page to another; called also setoff.

  8. See offset printing.

    Offset staff (Surv.), a rod, usually ten links long, used in measuring offsets.

Offset

Offset \Off*set"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Offset; p. pr. & vb. n. Offsetting.]

  1. To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.

  2. To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.

Offset

Offset \Off"set\, v. i. (Printing) To make an offset.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
offset

1550s, "act of setting off" (on a journey, etc.), from off + set (adj.). Meaning "something 'set off' against something else, a counterbalance" is from 1769; the verb in this sense is from 1792. As a type of printing, in which the inked impression is first made on a rubber roller then transferred to paper, it is recorded from 1906.

Wiktionary
offset

n. 1 (anchor: 1) Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent. 2 (anchor: 2) (context international trade English) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales. 3 (anchor: 3) (context obsolete c. 1555 English) A time at which something begins; outset. 4 (anchor: 4) A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface. 5 (anchor: 5) (context programming English) The difference between a target memory address and a base address. 6 (context signal analysis English) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level. 7 (anchor: 6) The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another. 8 (context surveying English) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object. 9 An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside. 10 (context botany English) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. 11 A spur from a range of hills or mountains. 12 (context architecture English) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off. vb. 1 To compensate for something. 2 To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

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WordNet
offset

  1. n. the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her" [syn: beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime] [ant: middle, end]

  2. a compensating equivalent [syn: counterbalance]

  3. a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips [syn: stolon, runner]

  4. a natural consequence of development [syn: outgrowth, branch, offshoot]

  5. a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper [syn: offset printing]

  6. structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly [syn: set-back, setoff]

  7. [also: offsetting]

offset

  1. v. compensate for or counterbalance; "offset deposits and withdrawals" [syn: countervail]

  2. make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength" [syn: cancel, set off]

  3. cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface

  4. create an offset in; "offset a wall"

  5. produce by offset printing; "offset the conference proceedings"

  6. [also: offsetting]

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Wikipedia
Offset (wheel)
Offset (film)

Offset is a 2006 drama film directed and written by Didi Danquart. It was filmed in Bucharest.

Offset

Offset may refer to:

  • Offset (film), a 2006 film featuring Răzvan Vasilescu and Alexandra Maria Lara.
  • Offset (law), a reduction in the amount to be paid by a losing party on the basis of debt owed by the prevailing party.
  • Offset agreement, a trade practice in the aerospace and defense industry.
  • Offset loan (finance), a type of flexible lending arrangement.
  • Offset printing, a printing technique where an inked image is transferred from plate to printing surface via a rubber blanket.
  • Offset Software, a video game development company.
    • Project Offset, working title of a first-person shooter video game by Offset Software.
  • Carbon offset, a financial instrument meant to aid efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Offset (botany)

In botany and horticulture, an offset is a small, virtually complete daughter plant that has been naturally and asexually produced on the mother plant. They are clones, meaning that they are genetically identical to the mother plant. In the plant nursery business and gardens, they are detached and grown on in order to produce new plants. This is a cheap and simple process for those plants that readily produce offsets as it does not usually require specialist materials and equipment.

Offsets form when meristem regions of plants, such as axillary buds or homologous structures differentiate into a new plant with the ability to become self-sustaining. This is particularly common in species that develop underground storage organs, such as bulbs, corms and tubers. Tulips and lilies are examples of plants that display offset characteristics by forming cormlets around the original mother corm.

When propagating plants to increase a stock of a cultivar, thus seeking identical copies of parent plant, various cloning techniques ( asexual reproduction) are used. Offsets are a natural means by which plants may be cloned.

In contrast, when propagating plants to create new cultivars, sexual reproduction through pollination is used to create seeds. The recombination of genes gives rise to offspring plant with similar but distinct offspring genome.

Category:Plants

Offset (computer science)

In computer science, an offset within an array or other data structure object is an integer indicating the distance (displacement) between the beginning of the object and a given element or point, presumably within the same object. The concept of a distance is valid only if all elements of the object are of the same size (typically given in bytes or words).

For example, in A as an array of characters containing "abcdef", the fourth element containing the character 'd' has an offset of three from the start of A.

Offset (law)

An offset in law, is a reduction in the amount of a judgment granted to a losing party based on debts owed by the prevailing party to the losing party. For example, if an employee successfully sued an employer for wrongful termination, the employer might be entitled to an offset if the employer could demonstrate that it had previously made an overpayment to that employee which had not been returned. A party may similarly be entitled to an offset where it can demonstrate that the prevailing party has already received compensation for its injuries through insurance, a judgment against another party liable for those injuries, or some other source.

Category:Judgment (law)

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Usage examples of "offset".

If it be constructed under the main body only, an offset should be excavated to accommodate the cellar stairs, three feet in width, and walled in with the rest.

The effects of the benzedrine and champagne had more than offset the splendour of the food.

Offset Lithography, which it the newest and most flexible method of production printing.

I save enough in moorage fees to offset more than the cost of keeping the place up.

He saw also that her revolt against the moribund spirituality of the wealthy class to which she belonged was offset by a consciousness of possession, so that she could support Emmet one moment and condemn his theories the next.

Furnishing hotel interiors was vulgar hackwork unbefitting a real artist, but a real artist had to make a living, and the commonplaceness of such commissions could always be slightly offset by such flourishes of unorthodoxy as having it written into every contract that one suite of rooms should be fitted with green carnations instead of the more fashionable roses and amaranths and should always be available for his exclusive use.

The discomfort of the drive back to Asmara would be greatly reduced by the superb upholstery and suspension designed by Messrs Rolls and Royce and would be more than adequietely offset by the quasi-civilized amenities of the town.

Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on--in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.

Upstairs in her room at The Forks, she took great care about her toilette, and came down to the veranda in a demure dress of palest yellow, offset with little bows of apple green.

To offset that, Trebe had sent another Kauger message, ordering Monte to a final job, the murder of Geiger, the jeweler.

Furnishing hotel interiors was vulgar hackwork unbefitting a real artist, but a real artist had to make a living, and the commonplaceness of such commissions could always be slightly offset by such flourishes of unorthodoxy as having it written into every contract that one suite of rooms should be fitted with green carnations instead of the more fashionable roses and amaranths and should always be available for his exclusive use.

The picturesque costume of the old Rat Killer tickles the sense of humor, and conveys somehow a delightful suggestion of his humbuggery which offsets the touching squalor of the grotesque little apprentice.

Delmar, that should your bank fail, the Middletown Trust will offset heavy withdrawals with new deposits.

I had to include in the terms of the charter a clause to offset the fact that her sails were a nonrenewable resource and I had my model in the type of contract which the petroleum corporations had negotiated in the days before the Chaos.

The decrepit row houses were supposed to be offset by impressive walls and archways that mirrored preinvasion architecture.