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plural spin-offs
An offshoot. quotations examples
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.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 51–52
An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off. examples
By-product. examples
(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. quotations examples
The Harry Potter spin-off prequel series Fantastic Beasts has been “parked” by Warner Bros, according to its director David Yates.
2023 October 27, “Fantastic Beasts: JK Rowling franchise has been ‘parked’, director says”, in The Guardian
The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed. examples