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Set Off

(A). A commercial expression. The credits are set off against the debits, and the balance struck.

Set off to advantage.

A term used by jewellers, who set off precious stone by appropriate “settings.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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