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 offshoot ['ɒ:fʃu:t]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 分支, 旁系, 衍生事物



    offshoot
    [ noun ]
    a natural consequence of development
    <noun.phenomenon>


    Offshoot \Off"shoot`\, n. [Off + shoot.]
    That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel,
    family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

    1. In the so-called "tanker war" _ an offshoot of the 8-year-old Iran-Iraq war _ Iran attacks neutral shipping in the gulf in retaliation for Iraqi raids on its oil tankers.
    2. The consortium later emerged as an offshoot of a plan to retain lawyers from three Asian-American legal activist groups in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles to help the Loo family.
    3. Now, following decentralisation, retrenchment and the demerger of Zeneca, ICI's bioscience offshoot which has moved to new premises, there are only 240 people based at Millbank.
    4. BT has a mobile phone offshoot, Cellnet, which alone has 1.2m subscribers - more than twice as many as all the cable phone users put together. Furthermore, the entertainment ban is unlikely to endure indefinitely.
    5. The results took in a full year from the offshoot, against nine months last time. Future growth, he said, depended on new technology.
    6. Sikhs, whose religion is an offshoot of Hinduism and Islam, make up only 2 percent of India's 800 million population, but they are a majority in Punjab.
    7. Union Carbide's sequestered 51 per cent stake in its local offshoot, which has continued to operate from its other Indian sites, was last month sold to a local business house, and from the funds a hospital is to be built in Bhopal. But few are happy.
    8. The Druse, members of a mystical sect that is an offshoot of Shiite Islam, have marked each anniversary with demonstrations.
    9. The Irish National Liberation Army, an extreme Marxist offshoot of the Irish Republican Army, claimed responsibility for the shooting in a statement to the British Broadcasting Corp. in Belfast.
    10. In Europe, Nissan and Unipart, a former offshoot of Rover, are also doing so. But none of them is having an easy ride.
    11. The Irish National Liberation Army, a Marxist offshoot of the IRA, claimed responsibility.
    12. DEGI, the property fund offshoot of Germany's Dresdner Bank has bought an office building in Westminster for Pounds 57m from Norwich Union.
    13. The Saudi dynasty belongs to the Bedouin Wahhabi community, an offshoot of the Sunni Moslem sect.
    14. VINTEN GROUP has completed the sale of the UK electro-optics business of its subsidiary, Vinten Electro-Optics Ltd, to Coherent Optics (Europe), an offshoot of Coherent, the US laser and optics company.
    15. Metaleurop, the French offshoot of Germany's Preussag, has also reported big losses recently. Zinc stocks on the LME have doubled in the past year and moved above 1m tonnes for the first time last week.
    16. The group is an offshoot of one of the five guerrilla armies that form the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, which has been fighting the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government for eight years.
    17. MANGANESE BRONZE Holdings is selling LTI Homer, its fuel tanks offshoot to Wilmid for an undisclosed sum, resulting in an exceptional loss which will be provided for in the accounts for the year to end-July 1994.
    18. Vestron Pictures was launched in January 1986 as an offshoot of Vestron Video, at the time the country's largest independent video cassette distributor.
    19. The Druse, a mystical offshoot of Islam long hostile to the Christians, form only 6 percent of the population and fear for their survival.
    20. "We are dealing with real entrepreneurs," says Antoni Leopold, an economist who advises Rural Solidarity, the union's countryside offshoot.
    21. The sale of Eagle, its Texan fund management offshoot, for Dollars 3.4m (Pounds 2.27m) cash has been concluded.
    22. It produced an offshoot, dwarf bowling, in which a helmeted dwarf is strapped to a skateboard and rolled into bowling pins.
    23. Ross McFadyen, managing director of the Australian offshoot, is chairman of Hambros Equities UK.
    24. The case that has them riled is an offshoot of a Chicago grand jury investigation into the dealings of player-agent partners Norby Walters and Lloyd Bloom.
    25. "I don't think Mr. Galbraith will be there," said Wendy DeMocker, a spokeswoman for the Republican Party offshoot.
    26. The Northeast co-op is an offshoot of energy-saving plans pioneered in California.
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