The phrase "a right to offset" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or financial contexts to refer to the entitlement to deduct or counterbalance an amount owed with an amount due.
Example: "The company has a right to offset any outstanding debts against future payments owed to the contractor."
Alternatives: "entitlement to offset" or "right to deduct".
True, carbon belchers in the rich world have the right to offset their emissions by paying for activities in the poor world that help retain carbon, under a deal called the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
In response, the cowling was lengthened 6 inches and the engine mount was canted two degrees to the right to offset the engine's tremendous torque.
Investors have expressed concern at the prospect of a rights issue to offset the 21% decline in the value of the firm's top 50 investments, equal to £682m, but are understood to be in more positive mood after a number of successful moves to cut debt by 3i's new chief executive, Michael Queen.
The trick is to cash enough tickets, at the right odds, to offset the losses and turn a profit.
In response to the Chick-fil-A same-sex marriage controversy, Frank created the "Chicken Offset" website to permit gay-rights supporters to offset their purchases of Chick-fil-A with donations to charities that supported gays.
The proposals would allow a worker to redirect up to two-thirds of his payroll taxes, or up to $1,000 annually, into a personal retirement account, in exchange for giving up the right to an offsetting amount of traditional Social Security benefits.
David Brooks's recent insistence that Obama had not presented a plan to offset sequestration opened the floodgates -- numerous critics rightly pointed out that Obama's plan to offset sequestration was right on the White House website.
Christmas comes early for the tabloids this week, as Radio 4 appears to admit that it can't find enough right-wing comics to offset the rampant left-wingery of its comedy output.
My knowledge on Lamb of God is minimal, but every so often, I need some music with just the right amount of brutality to offset my ever-present sensitive side.
We never got this just right (it's tough to get truly bold with a car that costs more than most of your worldly assets), but right enough to feel the 575 M's adaptive suspension prevent nosedive as we entered the turn under hard braking and also for it to offset right-hand chassis roll as we slid sideways through the bend.
And under NBC, the end of prime time has extended from 11 p.m. to midnight, the better to sell advertising to offset a $793 million rights fee.
