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bye-product

bye-product is the dated form of by-product.

Meaning of by-product

Noun

by-product (plural by-products)

  1. Something made incidentally during the production of something else.
    • It was about this time that the first experiments were made (in Germany) with basic slag, a material which had hitherto been regarded as a worthless by-product of steel manufacture. A year or two later field trials were begun in England, with the final result that basic slag has become recognized...1911, “History of English Agriculture”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. A consequence, especially a side effect.
    • The many Indian restaurants all over Britain are a by-product of the large waves of immigration from the subcontinent.

Forms of bye-product

pluralbye-products

Questions about bye-product

What is bye-product the dated form of?
Bye-product is the dated form of by-product.

Words near bye-product in the dictionary

  1. bye-laws
  2. bye-letter
  3. bye-letters
  4. bye-place
  5. bye-places
  6. bye-product
  7. bye-products
  8. bye-stander
  9. bye-standers
  10. bye-street
  11. bye-streets

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