spinoffとは 意味・読み方・使い方

アナグラム

• off spin, offspin

別の表記

• spinoff

語源

Deverbal from spin off.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈspɪn.ɔf/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈspɪn.ɒf/

名詞

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. A 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, →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

同意語

• derivate
• descendant

関連する語

派生した語

• → Russian: спин-о́фф (spin-óff)

参考

• (business): carveout (partial spin-off in a corporate reorganization)
• (literature): subseries
• tie-in (work of fiction based on an original media property)

参照

• spin-off on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• off spin, offspin