Play Off

Definition: Play Off

Play Off

Verb

1. Set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other".

Domain	Definition
Sports & Leisure	A series of games or matches as between the leading teams of the leagues, in order to decide a championship. . . RADIC, 71. . /. . --a series of postseason contests to determine a championship. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Play Off

Synonyms: match (v), oppose (v), pit (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deception	Play off, palm off, foist off, fob- off.
Use	Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Can't any longer play off black against old -- young against poor. (The Candidate; writing credit: Jeremy Larner)
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Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Penthouse - Pet of the Year Play Off 2001 (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Expressions using "play off": play off against ♦ To play off. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "play off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kundërvë (contradistinguish, match, oppose, set against). (various references)

Bulgarian		изигравам решаваща партия. (various references)

Czech		stavìt do špatného svìtla. (various references)

French		partie éliminatoire, finale de coupe, finale de championnat, éliminatoires (play-off), éliminatoire. (various references)

German		ausspielen gegen (play off against). (various references)

Greek		μπαράζ. (various references)

Hungarian		rossz színben tüntet fel (to play off), újrajátszott mérkõzés. (various references)

Italian		partita di spareggio, spareggio (run off), giocare lo spareggio. (various references)

Manx		cloie jeh noi. (various references)

Pig Latin		ayplay offay

Romanian		simula (act, affect, assume, dissemble, feign, imitate, make, make believe, malinger, pretend, sham, simulate), continua (bide, carry on, carry through, continue, follow, go on, hold, keep, keep it up, keep on, keep up, last, persist, proceed, prosecute, pursue, resume). (various references)

Russian		разыгрывать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odigrati odlučujuću utakmicu. (various references)

Spanish		partido de desempate, oponer (conjecture, pit, put up), jugar un partido de desempate. (various references)

Swedish		prångla ut (utter), spela om (replay), avskeda (can, cashier, discard, discharge, dismiss, displace, fire, remove, sack). (various references)

Turkish		sonunu çalmak, rövanş oynamak, rövanş maçı (return, return match), final oynamak, final (decider, drop scene, final, finale), birbirine düşürmek (breed bad blood, make bad blood, set against, set at odds). (various references)

Ukrainian		вирішальна зустріч, нацьковувати (halloo, hound, needle, sick), повторна гра, дурити (bamboozle, beat, cheat, fool). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: playoff.
	Words within the letters "a-f-f-l-o-p-y"
	-1 letter: layoff, payoff.
	-2 letters: offal.
	-3 letters: flap, flay, flop, foal, loaf, ofay, opal, paly, play, ploy, poly, yaff.
	-4 letters: aff, alp, fay, fly, fop, foy, lap, lay, lop, oaf, off, pal, pay, ply, pol, pya, yap.
	-5 letters: al, ay, fa, la, lo, of, op, oy, pa, ya, yo.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-f-l-o-p-y"
	+1 letter: playoffs.
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Play Off

Definition: Play Off

Play Off

Verb

Specialty Definition: Play Off

Sports & Leisure

Synonyms: Play Off

Synonyms within Context: Play Off

Deception

Use

Modern Usage: Play Off

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Play Off

Theater & Movies

Expressions: Play Off

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Play Off

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Modern Translation: Play Off

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Pig Latin

Romanian

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Ukrainian

Anagrams: Play Off

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INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
play off	5
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