offset
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Intel hopes that impressive 18A chips could attract outside customers to use the process and therefore offset the billions of dollars worth of quarterly losses it is booking in its foundry, or chip-manufacturing unit.
From Barron's
Ford recorded more fourth-quarter sales compared with the prior year, as lower-priced truck sales helped it more than offset a decline in electric vehicles.
High shipments and solid demand largely offset each other, the analysts note.
David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, said that businesses often have little maneuvering room on prices and few ways to offset the added labor costs that come with wage hikes.
However, headline inflation was dragged lower mainly by a sharp drop in energy prices, which offset a rise in food inflation, Vistesen said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
