Similar words: give off, live off, drive off, deprive of, conceive of, irrespective of, executive officer, chief executive officer. Meaning: v. 1. remove from a group and make separate 2. withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions.
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1. Klockner plans to hive off its loss-making steel businesses.
2. Where did the guy, do you know, hive off to?
3. The company decided to hive off some of its less profitable concerns.Sentencedict
4. You can hive off some of the work to us if necessary.
5. The sale section will hive off to form an independent firm next year.
6. The plan is to hive off individual companies as soon as they are profitable.
7. The move to hive off the bulk of the retailing shops has, apparently, saved over ￡6m.
8. The original intention was to hive off assembly operations to sub-contractors.
9. The directors decided to hive off some part of the work and start new firms.
10. Next year, the biochemistry section will hive off to form an independent department.
11. Lufthansa had originally planned to hive off its domestic operations into a subsidiary, Lufthansa Express.
12. The government has decided to hive off some parts of the nationalized industries to private enterprise.
13. It is part of a growing trend for television contractors to hive off their advertising sales.
14. So, immediately after a night feeding in Paris, the hive off on an air liner.
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