spin-off

See also: spin off and spinoff

English

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spin-off (plural spin-offs)

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.
An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.
Space research often provides a spin-off for everyday technology.
By-product.
(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.
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

offshoot — see offshoot

incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off

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

Borrowed from English spin-off. Attested since 1966.

spin-off c

a spin-off
Serien är en spin-off från filmen
The series is a spin-off from the movie