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ˌgo-ˈoff colloq.
[f. phrase go off: see go v. 85.]
1. The action or time of going off; a starting, commencement. Phr. (at) first go-off: straight away, at one's first attempt. at one go-off: in one unbroken spell of effort.
1851H. Melville Whale iv. 31 The first go off of a bitter cold morning. 1856Dobie Recoll. Visit Pt. Phillip iii. 52 Inducing a sympathetic reader to indulge in two years oscitation at one ‘go off’. 1872Geo. Eliot in J. W. Cross Life (1885) III. 156 They..then sit up to read it ‘at one go-off’. 1879F. W. Robinson Coward Consc. i. iv, ‘I don't think I would have put it in that way myself, at first go-off like’. 1888F. Warden Witch of Hills I. xii. 253 One gentleman isn't bound to fly into the arms of another gentleman first go-off. 1894Du Maurier Trilby (1895) 208 He succeeded at his first go-off.
2. Banking. ‘The amount of loans falling due (and therefore going off the amount in the books) in a certain period’ (Lord Aldenham).
Mod. ‘The Governor of the Bank of England says every Thursday to the Court ‘The go-off this week is {pstlg}―,000’’. |