"by-product" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: by-product [singular], by-products [plural]
Etymology: by- + product Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|by|product}} by- + product Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A by-product is something made incidentally during the production of something else.
    Sense id: simple-by-product-en-noun-nNXAqHfV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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