Let-off meaning

An escape from punishment.

The accused received a suspended sentence, which many saw as a let-off.

The missed penalty was a massive let-off for the home team.

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(engineering) A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom.
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To cause to explode.

Stand back when you let off fireworks.

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(idiomatic) To forgive and not punish.

The boss let me off for breaking the office window, when in theory she could have fined me about 30 dollars for the break.

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Let-off Sentence Examples

  • Twelve dollars later I was let off at a shabby red brick building in a section of town where no tour busses stop.

  • In Wales and the south of England the process is conducted in a reverberatory furnace, the sole of which is paved with slags from previous operations, and has a depression in the middle where the metal formed collects to be let off by a tap-hole.

  • In some instances indeed the monotony of their external appearance was broken by small shops, occupying the front of the principal houses, and let off separately; these were in some cases numerous enough to form a continuous façade to the street.

  • The water should be let off on the morning of a dry day, and thus the land will be dry enough at night not to suffer from the frost; or the water may be taken off in the morning and let on again at night.

  • Side by side with his indignation at the idea of cheating his Saracen enemies may be mentioned his answer to those who after Taillebourg complained that he had let off Henry III.

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