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English word

off

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /ɒf/US /ɔːf/
adverb

used to say that something has been removed or become separated

preposition

down or away from a place or at a distance in space or time

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So uh, post the sale—in fact, immediately post the sale—I didn't really take any time off.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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