1A by-product or incidental result of a larger project.

国防科研的商业性副产品。

1. 1.1 A product marketed by its association with a popular television programme, film, personality, etc.
   派生产品（利用与受欢迎的电视节目、电影、名人等的联系进行推销的产品），副产品
   as modifier spin-off merchandising

   派生产品营销。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The show has now been made in 35 countries and has created innumerable spin-offs.
   • Mr Wight said his father, who died in 1995, was bemused by the enduring popularity of his books and the spin-off shows and films.
   • In the entertainment world, a spin-off is a television strategy that creates a new programme around characters appearing in a show already being broadcast.
   • It got a new lease of life and reached a new audience through repeats and then a string of feature films and a spin-off series.
   • It was also filmed and the spin-off videos developed a cult following.
   • As history, the exhibition stands in contrast to the verbal narrative offered in the book published as a spin-off from the show.
   • Further legislation will restrict the creation of tobacco-brand spin-offs, such as clothing lines.
   • The film also produced a multiplatinum sound track and a popular television series spin-off.
   • A book publisher can believe in a writer, but no one believes in the product spin-offs of the film industry and this is the problem.
   • The parliamentary investigative committee is apparently pressing for its own spin-off film in which it tries to track down the documents related to Barrelgate.
   • He went to the NBC network to propose that they make a spin-off series from the film, which they'd call Transylvania.
   • Now, the public television station in Boston, WGBH, is creating a spin-off series for Buster the Bunny, who will travel around North America with his father, a pilot.
   • As a result, in the 1970s a peculiar brand of lowbrow comedy - the sitcom spin-off film - was born.
   • The personal stories became like television or film spin-off shows - attempts to generate new interest in an established narrative by exploring minor characters and plot lines.
   • As I write this, one of the most popular and long-running spin-offs is still in production: NBC's hit sitcom Frasier.
   • A fairly recent development in the comic book industry has been to foster a range of spin-offs, including films and videos, television programs, advertisements, toys and other merchandise.
   • This is a completely new challenge for us but we are really confident that the spin-offs will sell at really high volume and will be profitable.
   • The BBC has announced plans to create a spin-off series from Doctor Who.
   • Everything about the film, a spin-off from a popular Brazilian sitcom, was done with the latest digital technology - from the production to the distribution to the exhibition.
   • He also argues children's shows work, mainly because of the potential return from merchandise and publishing spin-offs.
2. 1.2 A subsidiary of a parent company that has been sold off, creating a new company.
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   • Often, spin-offs create long-term structural problems that are difficult, if not impossible, to fix once the deal is completed.
   • The company studied several scenarios, including a taxable outright sale of various businesses, but found the spin-off to be easily the most value creating, because of the tax advantages.
   • But the combined market cap of the parent and the spin-off is below the parent's value before the IPO.
   • Structuring a mutually beneficial incentive program between the parent and the spin-off can alleviate many of these problems, says Breyer.
   • Under stock exchange rules, newly listed companies cannot apply for a separate spin-off within three years from the date of the parent's listing.
   • He described the spin-off of the chip business as ‘absolutely the right thing to do’.
   • The Scottish Association for Marine Science is developing a new strategy for marine biotechnology and hopes to create valuable spin-off companies.
   • Managing director Kevin Foo said the company would spin off its oil and gas assets after the successful spin-off of mining subsidiary Eureka, which concentrated on the Kazakhstan region.
   • Private spin-offs are expected to take the total value of the scheme well past the £1 billion mark.
   • When that is in place, Smith wants to create and subsidise small independent spin-offs to make the pumps and supply them in the developing world.
   • Merrill calculates that the spin-off would create $15 billion to $27 billion in incremental value.
   • Not only would we have lost the immediate business but the long-term spin-off as well.
   • But later that year he quit Coca-Cola to become chairman of Coca-Cola Beverages, a spin-off from the parent firm.
   • ‘The centre will produce some high-quality jobs within it and hopefully create some more successful spin-off companies,’ said Lord Sainsbury.
   • He became CEO of Roadway upon its spin-off as a public company in 1996, the year before it began its data warehouse project.
   • Together with co-investors, he plans to take majority stakes in established companies or spin-offs from public companies.
   • Both of these are spin-offs from parent insurance companies.
   • NHS trusts and their employees will be able to have shares in spin-off companies created to take commercial advantage of the intellectual property generated through their research.