spin-offn.adj.

1951 Stanley & Kilcullen Federal Income Tax 182 Sec. 112 (b) (11), added by the 1951 Act, permits the distribution of stock in a spin-off without recognition of gain to the stock-holders, subject to certain restrictions designed to prevent the use of spin-offs to distribute earnings and profits.

1956 Sun (Baltimore) 30 May 15/1 The proposed ‘spin-off’ was to be on the basis of three shares of Bestwall Gypsum for each share of Certain-Teed.

1969 Daily Tel. 4 June 3 Many had been anticipating a complete spin-off by B P of its United States subsidiary with a United States quotation and a chance of more direct public participation in the group's Alaskan activities.

1974 Telegraph (Brisbane) 8 May 46/4 Spea is a subsidiary of the Italstrade Company. Italstrade, in turn, is a subsidiary, or spin-off, of Italstat.

1981 Observer 4 Oct. 21/1 A growing phenomenon in British business life: the hive-off, spin-off or demerger—the management buy-out, in fact.

1981 Times 28 Oct. 19/5 Even split into four separate companies, the spin-offs would be equal fifteenth in the league table.

1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 May 1/4 Numerous firms have been organized by M.I.T. scientists who decided to strike out on their own—‘spin-offs from M.I.T.’, one research official terms them.

1961 Guardian 10 Oct. 6/6 ‘Technological fall-out’ or ‘technological spin-off’..are the terms used to denote the desirable social byproducts of the plan to send men to the moon.

1963 Listener 7 Nov. 735/2 The development out of (or ‘spin off’, as the Americans call it) magazines [sc. magazine programmes] must not be interpreted as any lack of conviction in their continuing role.

1967 Technol. Week 23 Jan. 75/2 There were to be spin-offs in the form of a series of assist devices for emergency, temporary or permanent assistance to cardiac function.

1967 Daily Tel. 15 May 9/8 The close season is also the signal for another series of BBC Comedy Playhouse ‘try-outs’. It produced ‘Steptoe’; and last season, to use the current jargon, the ‘spin-offs’ in series form were ‘The Whitehall Worrier’, [etc.].

1968 Economist 13 Jan. 55/2 It was flatly denied that the huge military and space programmes had been of any advantage, in terms of technological spin-off, to industry.

1968 P. McKellar Exper. & Behaviour xv. 398 In this connexion we encounter the notion of ‘spin off’, the term used for other applications of findings that have emerged from space research.

1969 Daily Tel. 28 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 7/3 A car..is a means of transport with a horrifying spin-off of death and injury.

1975 Lady 17 July 97/1 One of the spin-offs of our affluent society is that more people can afford to keep dogs.

1976 TV Times (Brisbane) 22 May 7/2 There is a tradition in American TV—if a show is a success, do a spin-off. In other words, take one or two characters from the parent series and build another series around them.

1977 Sachs & Jahn Celestial Passengers xxxii. 198 Space spinoffs have resulted in many new products to improve the quality of our recreational activities.

1977 Sachs & Jahn Celestial Passengers xxxii. 193 Probably the best-known space spinoff to health is the cardiac pacemaker.

1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 127 626/1 If we can improve our productivity..then there will be all sorts of spin-offs from this in the way of leisure industries and service industries.

1966 National Observer (U.S.) 18 July 7 Although the column hasn't been as successful churning up front-page news stories as some editors had hoped, it does develop an occasional ‘spin-off’ story.

1967 Boston Globe 18 May 35/6 Shares of the spin-off company will be distributed tax free to United Fruit stockholders.

1969 Physics Bull. July 268/2 Many of the successful ‘spin-off’ firms in the United States were based on a transfer of technology by individuals from large and continuing programmes in government and university laboratories.

1974 Financial Times 8 Apr. 23/7 Hardly anyone earns less than the proposed new minima, which would therefore raise only a few earnings and so would hit employers' wage bills and eat into Stage Three allowances only through the spin-off effect on holiday and sick pay.

1979 Amer. Jrnl. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 28 1043/2 No attempt was made to document ‘spinoff’ costs, notably losses of tourism revenue.

1980 J. Wainwright Man of Law xi. 64 With hindsight..I knew... But honesty demands that I ask spin-off questions. How much did I know?