Definition of Setoff

1. Noun. Structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly.

Exact synonyms: Offset, Set-back
Generic synonyms: Construction, Structure
Derivative terms: Offset

Definition of Setoff

1. n. That which is set off against another thing; an offset.

Definition of Setoff

1. something that offsets something else [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Setoff

sethoxydim
setiferous
setiform
setiger
setigerous
setiparous
setireme
setiremes
setlike
setline
setlines
setlist
setlists
setness
setnesses
setoff (current term)
setoffs
setoid
setoids
seton
seton operation
seton wound
setons
setose
setous
setout
setouts
setpiece
setpieces
setpoint

Literary usage of Setoff

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"setoff—Whether a Positive Statutory Eight.—The right of setoff in Missouri ... setoff—Nature of Bight.—The right of setoff was in the beginning a creature ..."

2. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1918)
"Ct. 150, allowing setoff of credit balance by debtor against receiver of ... setoff and counterclaim can be extended by legislature to embrace claims coming ..."

3. A Treatise on Code Pleading and Practice: Also Containing 1900 Forms Adapted by William Angus Sutherland (1917)
"Counterclaim—setoff—Recoupment distinguished. A setoff is not technically a matter of defense, and does not sound in damages; it is a money demand of ..."

4. A Complete Index of the Notes in Annotated Cases, American and English by Eugene Glenroy Kreider (1922)
"Receivers, federal receivers as subject to setoff or counterclaim. ... United States' contracts, government's right of setoff or recoupment in action for ..."

5. Montgomery's Manual of Federal Procedure, Practice and Forms by Charles Carroll Montgomery (1918)
"Effect of Valid setoff or Payment. A party, in alleging the amount of his claim, is presumed to know of any payments made on the claim or valid setoffs ..."

6. Digest of the Reports of the Supreme Court of California: Volumes One by James Henry Deering (1896)
"See setoff, 1. Relative. See Executors and Administrators, 1. Resident. ... See setoff, 1. Steal. See Criminal Law, 203. Thereupon. See Streets, 27. ..."

7. Code of Law, Practice and Forms for Justices' and Other Inferior Courts in by Curtis Hillyer (1912)
"Washington—setoff of Mutual Judgments. If there be mutual justices' judgments between the same parties, upon which the time for appealing has elapsed on ..."

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