offlay

== English == === Etymology === From off- +‎ lay. Possibly from Middle English oflæien (“to offlay; delay”), from Old English ofleċġan (“to lay down; put away; overlay; cover”), from Proto-Germanic *abalagjaną. Compare also Dutch afleggen, German ablegen. === Verb === offlay (third-person singular simple present offlays, present participle offlaying, simple past and past participle offlaid) (transitive, rare) To offset. 2007, Climate Change: The Citizen's Agenda, Eighth Report of Session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and Written Evidence: […] 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. === Anagrams === Offaly, layoff, offaly, lay-off, lay off