offset

1. 1.

   compensate for or counterbalance

   “offset deposits and withdrawals”

   Synonymscountervail

   Broaderbalance
2. 2.

   make up for

   “His skills offset his opponent's superior strength”

   Synonymscancelset off

   Broaderbalance

   Narrowercounteract
3. 3.

   cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface

   Broadertransfer
4. 4.

   create an offset in

   “offset a wall”

   Broadermake
5. 5.

   produce by offset printing

   “offset the conference proceedings”

   Broaderprint

Other forms of offset

plural

offsets·

past tense

offsetted·

present participle

offsetting

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about offset

What does offset mean?

offset means "the time at which something is supposed to begin". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in offset?

offset has 2 syllables: off-set. The stress falls on "set". In IPA it is /ɔfˈsɛt/.

What is another word for offset?

Close synonyms include beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is offset a common word?

offset is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with offset?

23 words rhyme with offset. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.