The form offset is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle of the verb. offset的過(guò)去式和過(guò)去分詞與原形相同。
1. 抵消；補償 If one thing is offset by another, the effect of the first thing is reduced by the second, so that any advantage or disadvantage is cancelled out.
offset的反義詞
e.g. The increase in pay costs was more than offset by higher productivity... 提高的生產(chǎn)率抵消了增加的工資成本后仍有結余。 e.g. The move is designed to help offset the shortfall in world oil supplies caused by the UN embargo. 此舉旨在緩解聯(lián)合國禁運所造成的世界石油供應短缺的局面。
offset英英釋義
noun
1. structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
Synonym: set-backsetoff
2. a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
Synonym: offset printing
3. a natural consequence of development
Synonym: outgrowthbranchoffshoot
4. a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
Synonym: stolonrunner
5. a compensating equivalent
Synonym: counterbalance
6. the time at which something is supposed to begin
e.g. they got an early start she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her