offsetting

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Offset \Off*set"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Offset}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Offsetting}.]
   1. To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to
      offset one account or charge against another.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
      [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
offsetting \off`set"ting\ adj.
   Compensating for.

   Syn: countervailing, compensatory, compensative.
        [WordNet 1.5]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "offsetting":
      amendatory, amends, annulling, annulment, antacid, atonement,
      balancing, buffering, canceling, cancellation, commutation,
      compensating, compensation, compensatory, counteracting,
      counteraction, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing,
      expiation, expiatory, frustration, indemnification,
      indemnificatory, indemnity, invalidation, lex talionis, negating,
      neutralization, neutralizing, nullification, nullifying,
      penitential, recompense, recompensive, rectification, rectifying,
      redress, reparation, reparative, repayment, restitution,
      retaliation, retaliatory, revenge, satisfaction, stultifying,
      substitution, thwarting, undoing, vitiating, vitiation, voiding
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