offlayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

offlay (三人称単数 現在形 offlays, 現在分詞 offlaying, 過去形および過去分詞形 offlaid)

1. (transitive, まれに) To offset.
   • 1993, Professor Scott M Lash, ‎Professor John Urry, Economies of Signs and Space - Page 178

     The subcontractors themselves outsource work to others in a 'chain of subcontractors' in order further to offlay risks.

   • 2000, Dorothy Rowe, Friends and enemies - Page 171:

     That seemed to offlay the sense of "the bastards who did this". Quite often there seemed to me to be a sense of failure to protect one's own from the bastards.

   • 2007, Climate Change: The Citizen's Agenda, Eighth Report of Session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and Written Evidence:

     […] that you are going to control people's lives to the extent that they are able and willing to incur carbon cost which they will then have to offlay.

アナグラム

• Offaly, lay off, lay-off, layoff