Translations for „hive off“ in the English » German Dictionary

hive off VB trans esp Brit, Aus

1. hive off (separate):

to hive sth ⇆ off

etw ausgliedern

to hive work off

Arbeit auslagern

2. hive off (denationalize):

to hive off a company

einen Betrieb entstaatlichen [o. privatisieren]

3. hive off ECON, FIN:

to hive off ⇆ sth company

etw abspalten [o. ausgliedern]

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to hive work off

Arbeit auslagern

to hive off a company

einen Betrieb entstaatlichen [o. privatisieren]

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

But it's tough to hive off businesses that aren't especially profitable.

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The developer is looking to hive off the entire operations and maintenance to the buyer for the remaining licence period, the report said.

www.vccircle.com

This might be effected for a single asset, or via a more comprehensive hive off of multiple assets fitting similar criteria.

www.mondaq.com

The history of it is that trying to hive off a bit of a network can be pretty flawed.

www.smh.com.au

Legacy aside, would-be sellers are reluctant to hive off their crown-jewel properties at fire-sale prices.

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Meanwhile, it also creates a whole heap of technology that it can hive off and sell on to other businesses should it wish.

www.businessinsider.com.au

If this was to occur, does that mean the yacht clubs could hive off part of their land and put up units?

au.news.yahoo.com

The war that they are part of is not something that they can hive off in their minds, however they may try.

www.abc.net.au

Does all the work have to be done by a highly paid pathologist or can we hive off some routine tasks to pathology assistants?

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The union reps were obviously glad to hive off as much of that spending bonanza for themselves as they possibly could.

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