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spinoff

/spin-awf, -of/US // ˈspɪnˌɔf, -ˌɒf //

分支机构,衍生品,分支的,分支

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Commerce. a process of reorganizing a corporate structure whereby the capital stock of a division or subsidiary of a corporation or of a newly affiliated company is transferred to the stockholders of the parent corporation without an exchange of any part of the stock of the latter.Compare split-off, split-up.
    • : any product that is an adaption, outgrowth, or development of another similar product: The paperback is a spin-off from the large hardcover encyclopedia.
    • : a secondary or incidental product or effect derived from technological development in a somewhat unrelated area.

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Examples

  • A Different World [a Cosby Show spinoff] was principally about that college.

  • He returned to TV in Chicago Hope, before landing NCIS, a spinoff from JAG in 2003, playing Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

  • Addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky laid bare the worst of addiction on his shows Celebrity Rehab and its spinoff, Sober House.

  • Remember when people worried about the first Bachelorette spinoff?

  • Yes, Wicked endures, but that is 11 years old and basically a spinoff of The Wizard of Oz.