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.
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.
any product or development derived incidentally from the application of existing knowledge or enterprise
a book, film, or television series derived from a similar successful book, film, or television series
First recorded in 1945–50; noun use of verb phrase spin off
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After the spin-off, Mike Cavanagh will become chief executive of NBCUniversal, and Comcast’s former chief financial officer, Michael Angelakis, will return to run Comcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Lauren Morais, from the Welsh capital, will play Lisa Molinari in the new superhero series VisionQuest - a spin-off from the miniseries WandaVision.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
The 57-year-old is among the stars who will go head to head in the second series of the BBC reality game spin-off.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Resonac’s petrochemical unit is set to list Tuesday in Tokyo, with a spin-off becoming effective Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
But the heady excitement of turning one tune into two at no extra cost had another spin-off: organum where one voice stood still instead.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Less than a year ago, the regents torpedoed a plan by the Big Ten Conference to spin off its assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
In recent years, investment analysts have called for Disney to spin off ESPN, arguing that a stand-alone entity would be better positioned to manage the sports network as a declining asset.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The important benchmark comes as Comcast prepares to spin off NBCUniversal entertainment and news media businesses into a separate company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The announcement of price cuts comes ahead of parent company Associated British Foods' plan to spin off the business onto the London stock market next year.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
She whips my arm, making me spin off the walkway, cracking us both up.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
Now, eight series and three spin-offs later, the programme will stop broadcasting on the BBC after the current series ends.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Disney got to work making spin-offs of spin-offs of stories about a bounty hunter who had around 10 minutes of screen time in the original Star Wars trilogy.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Since then, the original series and its more than a dozen spin-offs have generated nearly 1,000 episodes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Every one of Disney’s remakes and spin-offs of its animated hits has been a naked cash grab.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
By 1980, the Lisp Machine project had generated two commercial spin-offs.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
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