VERB
- withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions
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remove from a group and make separate
The unit was hived off from its parent company
How To Use hive off In A Sentence
- The archive offers a central facility for cataloguing and indexing data.
- The archive offers a central facility for cataloguing and indexing data.
- Mercator's plan to demerge its coal mining division is in line with moves by its peers in the shipping industry, which have announced plans to hive off their more lucrative non-shipping businesses to increase market valuation as well as offset the volatility of the shipping industry. Mercator to Spin Off, List Coal Unit
- The original intention was to hive off assembly operations to sub-contractors.
- Where did the guy, do you know, hive off to?
- The plan is to hive off individual companies as soon as they are profitable.
- The sale section will hive off to form an independent firm next year.
- A while ago I suggested that it would be a good idea for Americans if they were to hive off a part of the country I call the ‘axis of stupidity’, and let all the fruitcakes who have been dragging the whole country down go live there.
- The archive offers a central facility for cataloguing and indexing data.
- That would in effect force them to hive off their audit arms, a cataclysmic change to their business model. Times, Sunday Times
