"offlay" meaning in English

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        "2": "oflæien",
        "t": "to offlay; delay"
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  "etymology_text": "From off- + lay. Possibly from Middle English oflæien (“to offlay; delay”), from Old English ofleċġan (“to lay down; put away; overlay; cover”), from Proto-Germanic *abalagjaną. Compare also Dutch afleggen, German ablegen.",
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      "form": "offlays",
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
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      "form": "offlaying",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "offlaid",
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        "participle",
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        {
          "ref": "1993, Professor Scott M Lash, Professor John Urry, Economies of Signs and Space - Page 178",
          "text": "The subcontractors themselves outsource work to others in a 'chain of subcontractors' in order further to offlay risks.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Dorothy Rowe, Friends and enemies - Page 171",
          "text": "That seemed to offlay the sense of \"the bastards who did this\". Quite often there seemed to me to be a sense of failure to protect one's own from the bastards.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Climate Change: The Citizen's Agenda, Eighth Report of Session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and Written Evidence",
          "text": "[…] that you are going to control people's lives to the extent that they are able and willing to incur carbon cost which they will then have to offlay."
        }
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        "To offset."
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        "(transitive, rare) To offset."
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  "word": "offlay"
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  "etymology_text": "From off- + lay. Possibly from Middle English oflæien (“to offlay; delay”), from Old English ofleċġan (“to lay down; put away; overlay; cover”), from Proto-Germanic *abalagjaną. Compare also Dutch afleggen, German ablegen.",
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        "participle",
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          "text": "[…] that you are going to control people's lives to the extent that they are able and willing to incur carbon cost which they will then have to offlay."
        }
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        "To offset."
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