Business / Agriculture / Offset: Liquidating a purchase of futures contracts through the sale of an equal number of contracts of the same delivery month, or liquidating a short sale of futures through the purchase of an equal number of contracts of the same delivery month. In other words, selling if one has bought, or buying if one has sold, a futures or option contract.
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Offset Adjective Synonyms: compensation, counterbalance, counteraction, check, equalizer, neutralizer
Offset Verb Synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, countervail, counterpoise, counteract, balance (out), equalize, even (out or up), square, cancel (out), neutralize, nullify, make up (for), atone (for), redress, recompense, repay, make amends or restitution, make good
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Business / Finance / Mutual Offset: A system, such as the arrangement between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX), that allows trading positions established on one exchange to be o MORE
Entertainment / Golf / Progressive Offset: Where a set of clubs has differing amounts of offset (leading edge of face behind forward edge of hosel) throughout, e.g., more offset in the long irons than in the short irons MORE
Business / Agriculture / Offsetting Compliance: A requirement that a farmer owning multiple farms who wishes to participate in a crop program must comply with the program?€™s provisions on all farms under the farmer?€™s ownership in order t MORE