offline

Speech parts

1. offline - Adjective

2. offline - Verb

3. offline - Adverb

Meaning

Of a system, currently not connected (generally electrically) to a larger network. For example, a power plant which is not connected to the grid, or a computer which is not connected to the Internet or to any other communications service.
Antonym: online
I saved the web pages so I could read them later offline.

(by extension) Happening in the physical world (the real world) as opposed to on the internet.
Synonym: IRL
Antonym: online

offline meetings
offline dating

While offline; with an offline system.
Antonym: online

(business slang) Outside the current meeting, in a more private setting.

From ("off") the Internet
I stole the images offline

offline (third-person singular simple present offlines, present participle offlining, simple past and past participle offlined)

(computing, transitive) To take (a system, etc.) offline; to demote from an active or online state.

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Examples

"A better arrangement would be to have Statistics Canada operating its own data centres and keeping them offline." Source: Internet

2010 On 24 March, the European Wikipedia servers went offline due to an overheating problem. Source: Internet

Accelerated merchant on-boarding– We have seen a growing range of offline merchants going online, as well as increased adoption by existing merchants of new ways to engage with and sell to consumers. Source: Internet

According to a news release sent early Friday, 16 per cent of Alberta's crude oil production remains offline, which is down from 22 per cent from March, when COVID-19 cases in Alberta began to rise. Source: Internet

A coalition of attorneys general is arguing that the Commerce Department lacks the power to keep blueprints for so-called "Ghost Guns" offline. Source: Internet

Additionally, an otherwise online system that is powered down may be considered offline. Source: Internet

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