spinoff
/spin-awf, -of/US // ˈspɪnˌɔf, -ˌɒf //
分支机构,衍生品,分支的,分支
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n.名词 noun
- 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.
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