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float off
verb
to offer (shares in a subsidiary company) for sale on the stock market separately from the main company
Example Sentences
The military firm now favours the "float off" method, which is more controlled and allows a vessel to be launched in a more complete state.
Blood rushed to her head, and she felt like it would float off.
Minor melting could push the flat ice bed up and move it toward the land, like a large ice cube that can float off the ocean bottom with enough thinning.
They saw a 27-point lead float off into the frigid Florida air, and staggered off the field after a 31-30 loss to the chant of “Duuuval,” a haunting refrain in reference to the local county that surely echoed in their heads all the way back to the West Coast.
“I’ve got to hand it to my grip team — Rico Emerson was my key grip on this — they were, like, dancing with the actors with this massive arm coming in. We could float off the set as one of our characters goes to a door or a window to contemplate, then stay with them as they went back and sat down.”
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