Setoff example sentences

set-off

noun

setoff (noun)

  - an item or amount that is or may be set off against another in the settlement of accounts.

  - a counterbalancing debt pleaded by the defendant in an action to recover money due.

  - a counterbalancing or compensating circumstance or condition:

  - a step or shoulder at which the thickness of part of a building or machine is reduced.

  - the unwanted transference of ink from one printed sheet or page to another before it has set.