相そう殺さい

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

offset; cancel out; counterbalance

General use for mutual cancellation or balancing of effects, such as gains and losses, credits and debits, or opposing forces.

• 利り益えきと損そん失しつが相そう殺さいされて、結けっ局きょくプラスマイナスゼロだった。

  The profits and losses offset each other, so in the end it was a wash.

• この取とり引ひきでは、売うり掛かけ金きんと買かい掛かけ金きんを相そう殺さいすることができる。

  In this transaction, accounts receivable and accounts payable can be offset.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

set-off; setoff

Legal term for the deduction of one debt or claim from another, often in court or formal proceedings.

• 被ひ告こくは、原げん告こくに対たいする反はん対たい債さい権けんをもって相そう殺さいの抗こう弁べんを提てい出しゅつした。

  The defendant submitted a defense of set-off based on a counterclaim against the plaintiff.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

killing each other

Only with reading そうさつ

Obsolete reading そうさつ; historical meaning of mutual killing, not used in modern Japanese.

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんでは、「相そう殺さい」を「そうさつ」と読よみ、互たがいに殺ころし合あう意いで用もちいることがある。

  In old texts, 相殺 is sometimes read そうさつ and used to mean killing each other.