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hive off
verb
- to transfer or be transferred from a larger group or unit
- usually tr to transfer (profitable activities of a nationalized industry) back to private ownership
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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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