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offlay

verb

Etymology

From off- + lay. Possibly from Middle English oflæien (“to offlay; delay”), from Old English ofleċġan (“to lay down; put away; overlay; cover”), from Proto-Germanic *abalagjaną. Compare also Dutch afleggen, German ablegen.

  1. derived from *abalagjaną✻

Definitions

  1. To offset.

    • The subcontractors themselves outsource work to others in a 'chain of subcontractors' in order further to offlay risks.
    • That seemed to offlay the sense of "the bastards who did this". Quite often there seemed to me to be a sense of failure to protect one's own from the bastards.
    • […] that you are going to control people's lives to the extent that they are able and willing to incur carbon cost which they will then have to offlay.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA