0 to balance one influence against an opposing influence, so that there is no great difference as a result:
1 to balance one influence against an opposing influence so that no great difference results:
2 to balance one effect against an opposing effect, so that there is no great difference as a result:
3 to pay an amount of money when you do something, for example travelling by air, that produces a lot of harmful waste products. The money is used to do something that protects against climate change, such as planting trees:
4 the right to pay a person or organization less money than you owe them because they also owe you money:
5 a payment that is used to reduce the effect of another payment:
The Australian government has announced changes to its tax offset rules for overseas production.
6 a payment that is made or an action that is done in order to pay for or reduce the harmful effect that something has on the environment:
However, by lowering the protein concentration, the acquisition time would significantly increase, offsetting the gains in throughput that can be achieved using larger mixtures.
Over 1980-1995 there was not even an offsetting benefit in terms of risk reduction, if one focuses on the volatility of real holding-period returns.
The cables later became part of the formwork imprint due to the wide offsets between the discs.
Enlargement of a shape by offsetting its edges.
A corollary is that organic agriculture requires more land to produce food than conventional agriculture does, thus offsetting any environmental benefits of organic production18.
At high liquidity levels, this also offsets the beneficial effects of monetary trade, hence only a larger keeps individuals indifferent between the two trading sectors.
There are however two major offsetting economic effects.
References, represented by (names for) relative grid offsets.