The phrase "an offset for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing compensation or a counterbalance for a particular cost, loss, or effect.
Example: "The company provided an offset for the increased expenses incurred during the project."
Alternatives: "a compensation for" or "a counterbalance for".
Mr. Daschle said, "The irony, given the fact that it was used as an offset for our military men and women, is not lost on some of us".
The Republicans got an offset for the jobless benefits, whose $29 billion cost will be covered by requiring newly hired federal workers to contribute more to their pensions and by selling parts of the wireless spectrum.
Instead of conventional welfare benefits, the earned-income tax credit provides an offset for the Social Security taxes low-income workers have already paid, along with a credit based on their earnings that is intended to give them an incentive to work.
This means that there is a gravimetric geoid undulation and an offset for every grid point.
TICs were overlaid and are presented here with an offset for clarity.
Although an offset for the foreshock and a subsequent transient change are recognizable, no anomalous changes above the noise level can be detected.
"The risk that the numbers highlights is that there's a bigger offset for currency depreciation," said Ross Walker, an economist at Royal Bank of Scotland in London.
The products it sells typically carry markups of 50percentt and higher, a potential offset for lavish spending on customer service, which, in Billings's mind, is unavoidable.
The government has promised a $530 tax offset for workers earning between $41,000 and $90,00 from next year, as the first tranche of the tax plan revealed in the budget.
A timing offset for each detector crystal pixel is obtained by calculating the average offset values of each crystal pixel with the opposing pixels.
Second, I have owned interest in a 75kw wind turbine in the California desert since 1985 that puts out about 10 homes worth of power -- so that has been a big offset for me for 25 years.
