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hive off

verb

  1. to transfer or be transferred from a larger group or unit
  2. usually tr to transfer (profitable activities of a nationalized industry) back to private ownership
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In 2001, this was broken up, with separate departments for environment, food and rural affairs, and for transport, hived off.

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Dr Jash says he also told her that they may even have to perform an invasive surgery which would involve hiving off a part of her lung.

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Men spilled over each other, hiving off into small groups to drink.

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Failing to do so could risk Musk hiving off the A.I. work that had driven investor enthusiasm in the stock.

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Meanwhile the French Mandate hived off Lebanon from Syria to create a strategic beachhead and imposed new boundaries over the whole territory in the early 1920s, before an Arab rebellion which they also ruthlessly suppressed.

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