Usually means: Ceasing to be operational, active.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word off:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. -off, off, the off: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Off, off, off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. off: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. off: Vocabulary.com
  6. Off, off: Wordnik
  7. off, the off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Off, -off, off, off-: Wiktionary
  9. -off, off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. off, off: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. off: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Off, -off, off, off: Dictionary.com
  13. off: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. off: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. OFF (band), OFF (file format), OFF (video game), OFF, OFF, Off (album), Off (video game), Off, Off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Off: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. off: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. off: Rhymezone
  19. off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. off: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. off: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Off: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. off: Free Dictionary
  24. off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. off: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. off: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. off: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. OFF: Acronym Finder
  2. OFF: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. off: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. off, off, off, off, off, off, off, off, off, off, off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Off (the Board): Backgammon

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Off: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  2. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See offing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
adverb:  Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
adverb:  So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
adverb:  (theater) Offstage.
adverb:  Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
adjective:  (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
adjective:  (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
adjective:  Not fitted; not being worn.
adjective:  Denoting something faulty, unsatisfactory, objectionable etc.
adjective:  Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
adjective:  (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
adjective:  Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
adjective:  (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
adjective:  (chiefly UK, predicative only) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
adjective:  (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
adjective:  (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
adjective:  Started on the way.
adjective:  Far; off to the side.
adjective:  Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
adjective:  (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
adjective:  (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
adjective:  (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To kill.
verb:  (transitive, Singapore, Philippines, Nigeria) To switch off.
noun:  (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

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