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Definition of Hive off
1. Verb. Remove from a group and make separate. "The unit was hived off from its parent company"
2. Verb. Withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions.
Definition of Hive off
1. Verb. (intransitive) To separate from a larger group. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To segregate; to remove from a parent entity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hive Off
Literary usage of Hive off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"So after putting this quantity into a saucer, and covering with perforated
cardboard to prevent any drowning, I lifted the old bell-hive off its stand, ..."
2. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1857)
"In a minute or two we took the hive off a rod • and set it down bottom upwards.
There was the comb all covered with a mass of agitated bees. ..."
3. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... lift the hive off to a table, knock it several times against the table, several
more bees will tumble out, and perhaps the queen among them. ..."
4. A Catalogue of Letters and Other Historical Documents Exhibited in the by Sandford Arthur Strong (1903)
"... will bee pleased to Consider, thatt Trade Is an other busines then the church,
or the Lawe,—for those two laste robbs the hive off the ..."
5. The Bee-keeper's Guide: Or Manual of the Apiary by Albert John Cook (1882)
"After the bees are busy at work, approach the old hive, blow a little smoke into
the entrance to quiet the bees, then carry the hive off a few feet, ..."
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