spinoff

スピンオフ、派生作品

以前の作品で脇役だった人物を主役にした、新しい番組や映画、本。

やさしい英語で： 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?

使い方： a spinoff of something (The new comedy is a spinoff of a popular hospital series.)

よく使う表現： a television spinoff, a comedy spinoff, spinoff series

派生物、派生企業

大きな組織や計画、活動から生まれ、そこから独立したもの。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： a spinoff from something (The company is a spinoff from a university research project.)

類義語： offshoot

よく使う表現： a university spinoff, a commercial spinoff, spinoff company