spinoff

série dérivée

Nouvelle série, film ou livre consacré à un personnage qui avait un rôle secondaire dans une œuvre précédente.

En anglais simple : A new show, film, or book about a character who had a smaller part in an earlier one.

• Her favourite character now has a spinoff.
• The spinoff follows the detective's former assistant.
• Have you watched both spinoffs of that comedy?

Comment l'utiliser : a spinoff of something (The new comedy is a spinoff of a popular hospital series.)

Expressions courantes : a television spinoff, a comedy spinoff, spinoff series

entreprise dérivée, retombée

Ce qui naît d’une organisation, d’un projet ou d’une activité plus vaste, puis devient indépendant.

En anglais simple : Something that develops from a larger organization, project, or activity and becomes separate from it.

• The small firm began as a university spinoff.
• Several useful spinoffs came from the space programme.
• The parent company sold its stake in the spinoff.

Comment l'utiliser : a spinoff from something (The company is a spinoff from a university research project.)

Synonymes : offshoot

Expressions courantes : a university spinoff, a commercial spinoff, spinoff company