spin-off

See also: spin off and spinoff

English

Alternative forms

• spinoff

Etymology

Deverbal from spin off.

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. 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

Related terms

• spindown
• spinout
• spin-up
• spinup

 

Translations

offshoot — see offshoot

incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副产品 (zh) (fùchǎnpǐn)

• Finnish: lisähyöty, sivutuote (fi), spin off
• 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 (supin-ofu)
• Korean: 스핀오프 (seupinopeu)
• Malay: cerita ranting (especially in wayang kulit)
• Russian: спин-о́фф (ru) m (spin-óff)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• 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

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
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	spin-off	spin-offen	spin-offer	spin-offerna
Genitive	spin-offs	spin-offens	spin-offers	spin-offernas

References

• spin-off in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• spin-off in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)