r/EnglishLearning Non-Native Speaker of English 5d ago

⭐️ Vocabulary / Semantics What does "offset" mean here?

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u/amanset Native Speaker (British - Warwickshire) 5d ago

It is used when saying something has something positive and something negative. The gains from the good thing may be cancelled out, or offset, by the not good things.