Usually means: Match two people or things.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. pair off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pair off: Merriam-Webster
  3. pair off: Vocabulary.com
  4. pair (sb) off, pair off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. pair off: Wiktionary
  6. pair off: Dictionary.com
  7. pair off: Rhymezone
  8. Pair Off: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. pair off: FreeDictionary.org
  10. pair off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. pair off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pair off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pair off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pair off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pair off: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (pair off)

verb:  (intransitive) To separate into groups of two.
verb:  (transitive) To join two people into a relationship.
verb:  (intransitive, politics, dated) To agree with one of the opposite party or opinion to abstain from voting on specified questions or issues.

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