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How to pronounce “set-off”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of set-off with real speech in context.
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- How Little Experiments Can Lead to Big Success
- Definition summary
- That which is set off against another thing; an offset.
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How to pronounce set-off
How Little Experiments Can Lead to Big Success

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Meaning
- [Noun]
- That which is set off against another thing; an offset.
- (dated) That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament.
- (law) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.
- (finance) The situation where a bank or similar organisation repays itself money owed by an accountholder out of his or her account.
- (printing) An offset.
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