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offshoot | American Dictionary

offshoot
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɔfˌʃut/
something that has developed from something larger that already existed:
Cyber cafes are just the latest offshoot of the Internet craze.

offshoot | Business English

offshoot
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɒfʃuːt/us
WORKPLACE
a company or activity that has developed from one that already existed:
The company's internet offshoot is already making enormous profits.

Examples of offshoot

offshoot
Agents began as an offshoot of artificial intelligence research.
This biomass increment, however, only accounts for the largest, and generally oldest, rosette and the investment in offshoots differed strongly.
The earliest mutual improvement societies were often offshoots of a church or chapel, and sought to combine intellectual achievement with particular and specific moral values.
One offshoot was a greater care for records.
Another offshoot is that some nonhuman beings do have rights that are based on their dignity.
Which is why minimalism and its offshoots have been so successful.
These offshoots were generally small (<5 cm) and developed following the same annual pattern.
The other, polycarpic, species divert resources to several offshoots during growth and prior to the production of the first inflorescence.
A virilocal connection is present too, although it is not an offshoot of the household head's lineage.
An important offshoot of the shape grammar research is graph grammar research.
One interesting offshoot of this approach is the possibility of combined mapping types.
Savings rules, as an offshoot of green accounting, are likely to provide useful measures of sustainable development.
An interesting offshoot of the efficiency wage literature helps answer some of these questions.
At the end of the experiment each plant and its offshoots were drip dried for at least 30 min before being weighed.
It is unlikely that readers trained in the analytical tradition or one of its offshoots will find many of the entries relevant to their concerns.
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