off-grid.

1. Not connected to the ordinary public supply network, especially electricity.

2. Deliberately disconnected from ordinary digital communication or institutional tracking, in an extended informal use.

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Words that belong together

• an off-grid house
• off-grid living

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The off-grid house relied on stored power through the winter.

Their off-grid living still depended on supplies brought from the town.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Relational or positional adjective; ordinary comparative and superlative usually not applicable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.