set-off

基本解释

Set-off discharges the obligations.
抵销解除双方债务。
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The Customer shall pay to the Company in cash, or as otherwise agreed, all sums when due, immediately and without reduction or deferment on account of any claim, counterclaim or set-off.
客户应以现金或其他协议的方式实时向本公司支付所有到期款项，不得因任何索偿、反索偿或抵销而扣减或延迟支付。
If the notice does not specify the obligation against which set-off is exercised, the other party may, within a reasonable time, acknowledge to the first party the obligation to which set-off relates.
如果通知没有指明行使抵销权的债务，另一方当事人可在合理的时间内向第一方当事人声明有关抵销的债务。
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The team of students and research volunteers set off on a three-week boat trip to examine the area.
The sheer cacophony of the clustered consonants in this line sets off -or has the potential to set off -- a powerful cluster of feelings.
这句诗中辅音全然不和谐，使人觉得,或者有意向让人觉得-，有力量的层叠之感。
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So they started off. They wanted to have-- They set up peace talks where a representative of the Eagle and a representative of the Rattler were set to meet and plan ways so that they could disarm and stop using cuss words and everything like that.
然后他们开始了，他们想…,他们进行和谈,老鹰队的代表,和响尾蛇队的代表,安排见面，制定方法,从而解除武装，不再说脏话,诸如此类的目标。
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Crowley remark set-off a controversy over profiling and ended in a beer summit.
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a fault in which ink is transferred from a heavily inked or undried printed sheet to the sheet next to it in a pile (Also called (esp Brit) offset)