If something is off topic it is not related to the subject
or topic that it is supposed to be discussing.
There are a
number of different situations where you might encounter this phrase, but it basically
always means the same thing. For example, if I assign a student to write an essay on
freedom of speech and he starts to write about how the US government is spending too
much money, I will tell him this is off topic. He was supposed to write about freedom
of speech, not about how much the government is spending. Someone can also introduce a
subject that is off topic in an oral discussion.
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