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- (noun): (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.
- (verb): To kill.
- (verb): To switch off.
- (adjective): Inoperative, disabled.
- (adjective): Cancelled; not happening.
- (adjective): Not fitted; not being worn.
- (adjective): Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (adjective): Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (adjective): Inappropriate; untoward.
- (adjective): (in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.
- (adjective): Started on the way.
- (adjective): Far; off to the side.
- (adjective): Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
- (adjective): (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (adjective): (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
- (adjective): (in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (adjective): In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- (adverb): In a direction away from the speaker or object.
- (adverb): Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (adverb): So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- (adverb): Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- (preposition): Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.
- (preposition): Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (preposition): Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- (preposition): Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- (preposition): Removed or subtracted from.
- (preposition): No longer wanting or taking.
- (preposition): (more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- (preposition): Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.
- He got in the way so I had him offed.
- Can you off the light?
- All the lights are off.
- The party's off because the hostess is sick.