spinout
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- noun
- /ˈspɪnˌaʊt/
- Jargon
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spin-off
- The university's new business incubator has already produced several successful spinouts that are making waves in the tech industry.
Examples
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The Redmond, Wash.-based company is the second spinout for Intellectual Ventures, preceded by TerraPower, which aims to build a new kind of nuclear reactor.
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Meenan's presentation to more than a dozen inside a modern, ground-floor UMB building with big glass windows looking out on busy Baltimore Street, as students, researchers, and construction workers hustled by, was the first in a proposed series called Startups and Spinouts Collaboration Series.
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Loughborough University will work with the Olympic Legacy Company to develop plans for an Institute of Sport for Health in the Olympic Park, which will bring together business and sports science and help to create new spinout companies in this field.
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This trend has had the effect of causing large company or divisional spinout transactions to rise in price, a direct "trickle down" effect of the public markets' rising multiples over the past five years.
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I've pretty much run through drilling all the escapes from Jiu Jitsu University and Blue Belt Requirements that I think will work for me and cut out the ones that won't, which is pretty much only Roy Dean's spinout.
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Kymeta is a spinout from Intellectual Ventures, the Nathan Myhrvold-run company best known for its irksome strategy of amassing patents and then looking to collect from companies whose products make use of the patents.
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After years of research, the team successfully launched a spinout focused on renewable energy solutions.
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The latest spinout from the pharmaceutical company specializes in developing innovative treatments for rare diseases.
Synonyms
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An act of leaving a group to be independent or a sudden move ahead in a race
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A new company, product, or show created from an existing one
Antonyms
How Independent
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- Jargon
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Spinout comes from the parts spin ('turn') and out ('away'). Imagine a part of a company being 'spun out' from its parent to become its own firm, so a spinout is a new independent company made from an existing one.