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throwoff

throwoff noun: income minus expenses and depreciation.

Noun

throwoff (plural throwoffs)

  1. Income minus expenses and depreciation
    • Adding to his depreciation of $750,000, he would have a cash throwoff of $1,100,000.1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Hearings, page 27
    • As the equipment is depreciated the cash throwoff generated increases the working capital by an identical amount.1962, Systems Analysis & Research Corporation, The Cost of Air Cargo Service, page 113
  2. Control for disengaging a mechanism
    • The impression throwoff lever and starting and stopping buttons are similar to those found on the other presses.1963, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Lithographer 3 & 2, page 453
    • When the rhythm and the coordination of hands and foot have been mastered and the printer feels relaxed and at ease, then the throwoff lever is pulled back and printing is started.1971, United States. Department of the Army, Craft Techniques in Occupational Therapy, pages 12-31
  3. Deflection of a projectile
    • We can use the analogy of a vacuum trajectory to examine the lateral throwoff effect generated by either a static or a dynamic imbalance.2018, Donald E. Carlucci, Sidney S. Jacobson, Ballistics
  4. Something off-the-cuff
    • In talking to them they will drop another name and we will check that one throwoff.1955, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Investigation on Administration of Refugee Relief Act, page 253
  5. The act of flinging off
    • Figure 5.40b shows the case of a dam produced by two delayed throwoff blasts in one slope; the upper charge (or row) is fired first and the lower one within a certain interval.1979, Josef Henrych, The Dynamics of Explosion and Its Use, page 300
  6. Something thrown off
    • Assuming a bloody instrument being swung in an arc, can you tell us what you mean by weapon throwoff and what causes it?1966, Paul Holmes, Retrial; Murder and Dr. Sam Sheppard, page 213
  7. Incidental creation
    • Is it your understanding that genetic damage by radiation so increases the balance that it would upset the throwoff rate established naturally?1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Civil Defense for National Survival

Examples of throwoff in a sentence

  • The cash throwoff becomes available to management to apply to the business in the most desirable manner.1974, Robert M. Soldofsky, Garnet D. Olive, Financial Management, page 390:
  • Note that the loan carrying and the second highest interest rate requires the smallest annual payment and yields the lowest cash throwoff.1979, University of Florida. Real Estate Research Center, Real Estate Appraisal, Finance, Investment, and Business, page 153:

Forms of throwoff

pluralthrowoffs

Questions about throwoff

What does throwoff mean?
Throwoff means income minus expenses and depreciation.
How do you use throwoff in a sentence?
The cash throwoff becomes available to management to apply to the business in the most desirable manner.
What part of speech is throwoff?
Throwoff is a noun.
What is the plural of throwoff?
The plural of throwoff is throwoffs.

Words near throwoff in the dictionary

  1. thrown up
  2. thrown up one's hands
  3. thrown up the sponge
  4. thrown wobblies
  5. thrownness
  6. throwoff
  7. throwoffs
  8. throwout
  9. throwouts
  10. throwover
  11. throwovers

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