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offsetting


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Offset  \Off*set"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Offset};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Offsetting}.] 
  1.  To  set  off  to  place  over  against;  to  balance;  as  to 
  offset  one  account  or  charge  against  another. 
 
  2.  To  form  an  offset  in  as  in  a  wall,  rod,  pipe,  etc 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  offsetting 
  adj  :  compensating  for  [syn:  {countervailing},  {compensatory},  {compensative}] 




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