hive off

hive off

To separate someone or something from someone or something else. A noun or pronoun can be used between "hive" and "off." I think we need to hive this group off into another homeroom—there's just too many kids in here.
See also: hive, off
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hive off

v.
To set something apart from a group: The CEO hived off the department into another division. The police academy hived the new recruits off during orientation.
See also: hive, off
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bear off from (someone or something)
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • better of
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • begin with
  • begin with (someone or something)
  • be rough on (someone or something)
  • bird has flown, the
  • beware of
References in periodicals archive
BSNL has already hired consultants to help it hive off its tower business.
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If it is felt necessary to beef up the Warwickshire force then why not hive off the Coventry section of West Midlands Police and add this to the existing Warwickshire force?
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Disappointment that retail giant GUS will not immediately hive off its Experian credit checking arm cast a shadow over the London market today.
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To get the Commission's green light this time round, Alcan has said it is prepared to hive off a flat-rolled steel mill in Germany.
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Meanwhile rival FirstGroup have rejected pressure from a big investor to hive off their US bus division.
All aboard for bus success
UBS AG (NYSE: UBS) has rejected shareholder Knight Vinke's demand to hive off the investment banking unit of the Swiss lender.
-UBS rejects Vinke's campaign to break up the bank
But Universal is now thought to be drawing up plans to hive off the record label along with other assets to help assuage regulators' concerns about its market dominance, according to press reports.
FERRY'S LABEL COULD BE SOLD OFF
There are plans to hive off scores of hospitals to foreign companies offering expertise that is neither wanted nor required.
Betraying our NHS
"She has a broad suspicion that there are some plans to privatise or hive off the Riverside Festival.
Festival hive-off claims
OIL giant BP recorded first-quarter profits of pounds 2.64bnand unveiled plans to hive off half of its petrochemicals arm.
BP profits rise
Countrywide said advanced discussions were taking place with a small number of parties as it explored options to hive off the division, which has been mostly closed to new business since August 2002.
Countrywide pulls out of assurance
Indice Multimedia is to hive off its free newspaper activities and regroup them as part of its Indice Multiprensa subsidiary.
WANADOO ACQUIRES SPANISH INDICE MULTIMEDIA COMPANY (TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES)
Whitbread is being forced to hive off the brewing arm after striking a deal to buy 3,500 pubs from Allied Domecq.
Business: Brewers' eye Whitbread hive-off
Hoenig said that he would prefer banks to hive off risky activities such as trading and creating derivatives and eliminate any taxpayer subsidy for such businesses.
-US regulator still concerned about taxpayers