offset

offset
n
1. compensation, Latin, quid pro quo. recompense, repayment, reimbursement; satisfaction, damages, Law. solatium, indemnification, indemnity, recoupment; restitution, penalty, fine; requital, quittance, return, redress; atonement, amends, expiation, reparation, retribution.
2. antidote, counterbalance, counterweight, counterpoise, balance, check, countercheck; weight, stabilizer, equalizer, neutralizer, makeweight, ballast.
3. start, beginning, commencement, outset, onset, outbreak, dawn, conception, birth, genesis, exordium; opening, inauguration, Inf. ribbon-cutting, Inf. kick-off, Inf. jump-off, Inf. send-off, Inf. take-off, Inf. blast-off; rise, arising, beginnings, emergence, incipience, nascence, infancy.
4. offshoot, branch, stem, twig, shoot. See offshoot(def 1).
adj
5. off-center, out of balance, out of alignment, to one side, out of line; at an angle, crooked, slanted, slanting, Sl. cockeyed, askew, awry.
v
6. juxtapose, compare, collate, contrast, set side by side, oppose, set against, Sl. stack up.
7. compensate for, make up for, Inf. even things out, countervail, counterbalance, counterweigh, counterpoise; counteract, anitdote, neutralize, nullify, cancel or cancel out; balance, equalize, handicap, even, square, equate; adjust, adapt, accommodate, Naut. (of sails) trim.
8. recompense, repay, reimburse, indemnify, refund; make restitution, make amends, requite, satisfy, make up for, redress, atone, expiate, make good.
9. project, protrude, stick out, jut out; branch, diverge, divide, fork.

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