Sentence examples for unit off from inspiring English sources
Ford owned Hertz and spun the unit off in a 2005 initial public offering.
It merged with Schweppes, a fizzy-drinks firm, in 1969 before thinking the better of it and spinning the unit off again in 2006.Mr Stitzer is an American lawyer who has more in common with Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft's boss, than with the firm's high-minded founders.
In August, ThyssenKrupp, based in Dusseldorf, which also makes auto parts and elevators, scrapped a plan to spin the steel unit off in a public offering, because investment banks said the offer would not raise the $1.4 billion the company wanted.
The instruction sheet recommends turning the unit off during charge, in order to speed up the process.
The 91 Wireless subsidiary, which started back in 2007, had grown so quickly that its owner, NetDragon, was considering spinning the unit off for an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
It's an expensive proposition to turn a coal or nuclear unit off, so instead they run constantly.
Some analysts have said they suspected generating companies kept generating units off-line, limiting competition and forcing California's grid operator to pay stratospheric prices to avoid blackouts.
A navigation unit pops off the dashboard for portability.
That unit threw off $558 million in cash in the latest fiscal year.
CBS's relatively small in-house Internet unit laid off several dozen people this summer.
The billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has some advice for the cellphone unit: sell off your patents.
