hive off

verb

hived off; hiving off; hives off

intransitive verb

chiefly British : to break away from or as if from a group : become separate

transitive verb

chiefly British : to make separate: such as

a

: to remove from a group

hive off the rookies for special training

b

: to assign (assets, responsibilities, etc.) to another

c

: spin off

Examples of hive off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

ByteDance is now close to finalizing a plan to hive off the video service in the US, which will ensure the platform survives while loosening the Chinese company’s control. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2025

So, this executive guessed Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison will hive off CBS (more on CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss later) and keep NBC to entice Roberts to sell. —Alex Sherman, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2025

Charter cities are attempts to hive off a real piece of land, usually from a country with poor sovereignty itself and establish basically a corporate fiefdom. —Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 20 Nov. 2025

Robinson Land, controlled by Lance Gokongwei and his family (No. 14), in June hived off nine of its 56 shopping malls into a commercial REIT to bankroll expansion plans. —Jonathan Burgos, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1856, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Rhymes for hive off

• cerenkov
• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff