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to spin-out

to spin-out

6.7
To create a new business from part of a larger company
  • phrasal verb
  • /spɪn aʊt/
  • Specialized
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  • And the technology that we've created in the lab has been spun out into two companies.
  • spin out a self-driving unit

Well, Craig and colleagues have a company that they've spun out through Stanford.

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Examples

  • MIT PhD Alexei Erchak, founder of Luminus Devices, confirmed that MIT has "pioneered an environment that encourages companies to spin out of academia."

    Academic text (2012)

  • Affectiva is a company that spun out of MIT.

  • You create something that lives within your restaurant that then can be spun out to be a global DTCCPG brand.

  • The original HP got spun out as a company called Agilent.

  • Well, Craig and colleagues have a company that they've spun out through Stanford.

    Andrew Huberman

  • Your thoughts on CVS evaluating, spinning out their insurance and their healthcare businesses separate from the consumer business?

  • The last five years of that work went on in the startup MTPV Corporation, which got spun out of Draper.

    MIT OpenCourseWare

  • I think that's tied to Man AHL, which was a London-based fund and then a lot of the guys who spun out of their founded firms like Winton and so on.

  • In 2020, the pharmaceutical division was successfully spun out as a separate entity to focus on drug development.

  • The university plans to spin out multiple tech startups from its research initiatives this year.

Synonyms

to spin off
vsto spin-out
11 4.3

To create a new company or product from part of a larger business

is specifically about forming a new independent company to commercialize research
to hive off
vsto spin-out
  • Jargon
8.0

To separate part of a company to make it an independent business

focuses on creating a new independent company to commercialize technology

How Independent

to divest
  • Specialized
10 7.5
to spin-out
  • Specialized
6.7
to retain
236 3.4

Surface Forms

spin-out infinitive
spinning-out present participle
spin-outs third person singular
spun-out past
spun-out past participle

Morphology

spin-out = spin + out (semi-transparent) = spin + out

The business verb meaning (to separate a unit into an independent company) is derived from the phrasal verb but is a specialized, metaphorical usage that may not be immediately obvious.

Etymology

Spin-out as a verb uses spin ('to turn') and out ('away'), which gives the image of turning a part away from the whole, like the related word spin-off. So to spin-out a unit is to make it its own independent company.