offlay

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 15
Words With Friends: 15
Letters: 6

Definition of offlay

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(rare, transitive)To offset.

“The subcontractors themselves outsource work to others in a 'chain of subcontractors' in order further to offlay risks.”
“That seemed to offlay the sense of "the bastards who did this". Quite often there seemed to me to be a sense of failure to protect one's own from the bastards.”
“[…] that you are going to control people's lives to the extent that they are able and willing to incur carbon cost which they will then have to offlay.”

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Etymology

From off- + lay. Possibly from Middle English oflæien (“to offlay; delay”), from Old English ofleċġan (“to lay down; put away; overlay; cover”), from Proto-Germanic *abalagjaną. Compare also Dutch afleggen, German ablegen.