Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instance of spinning out.
- noun A spinoff, especially a business that is spun off from a larger company.
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- noun automotive A skid that results in a car rotating so as not to be oriented in the direction of linear motion.
- noun business The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Diller spent about 90 minutes on the witness stand Friday morning reiterating that he believes his single-tier proposal gives the new companies the most flexibility for growing their businesses, and calling the spinout plan true to "what's been written down in paper" between him and Liberty's chairman,
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However, a campaign adviser acknowledged that what called the spinout from the first debate needed to be dealt with, and that is why Giuliani is going to be spelling out his position on abortion.
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SELMAN: Is this the spinout, or the spinout was the night before this?
New York World 2006
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SELMAN: Is this the spinout, or the spinout was the night before this?
New York World 2006
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The discovery platform that was the basis for Montigen and CLIMB will become part of the new Montigen to the extent we're able to engineer a spinout, which is something we're working on presently.
unknown title 2011
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Alelo, the USC spinout which is developing language learning systems based on video games, disclosed this week that the firm has been selected as a prime contractor by the U.S. Army.
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With Autonomy, he said, software sales will account for 8% of H-P's revenue by 2015—an estimate includes the PC spinout.
H-P Needed to Evolve, CEO Says Ben Worthen 2011
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"News Corp. is assessing a number of possibilities including a sale, a merger and a spinout,"Rosabel Tao, a spokesperson for MySpace told Bloomberg.
Is MySpace For Sale? The Huffington Post 2011
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"News Corp. is assessing a number of possibilities including a sale, a merger and a spinout," Rosabel Tao, a spokesperson for MySpace told Bloomberg.
Is MySpace For Sale? The Huffington Post 2011
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"Perhaps, most worryingly, this decision will significantly disadvantage biomedical research and innovation, resulting in fewer spinout companies and SMEs being created, such as the contract research organisations, which are a particularly successful sector of the economy."
Chemistry cuts will do 'irreparable' damage, top scientists warn 2011
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