What does offlay mean?
Offlay means (transitive, rare) To offset..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive, rare) To offset..
[…] 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.
The subcontractors themselves outsource work to others in a 'chain of subcontractors' in order further to offlay risks.
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.
Use offlay when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Offlay means (transitive, rare) To offset..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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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