Cut Corners

  

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Cut Corners

Definition: Cut Corners

Cut Corners

Verb

1. Do something the cheapest or easiest way; "Cut corners to make a cheaper product".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Non-Fiction Usage: Cut Corners

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Whereas previously clients would demand American quality, now cost-effectiveness has become the paramount consideration, and companies that cut corners and use inferior standards and products have benefited as a result. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Cut Corners

Expression using "cut corners": to cut corners. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cut Corners

Language Translations for "cut corners"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏قطع المنعطف, ‏قطع الزاوية. (various references)

   

Czech

  

řezat zatáèky. (various references)

   

French

  

traverser le virage, traverser le corner. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

spórol (economize, save, save money, to save, to skimp, to spare). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

手'抜く (to be shoddy, to cut corners, to ease up). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

て'ぬく (to be shoddy, to cut corners, to ease up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utcay ornerscay

   

Russian 

  

сокращать путь. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

hvatati prečicu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cortar camino (cut across, take a shortcut). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ta genvägar. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ucuza halletmek, kestirme yoldan halletmek. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

скорочувати відстань. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cut Corners

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: occurrents.

Words within the letters "c-c-e-n-o-r-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: occurrent, trouncers.

-2 letters: concerts, construe, corrects, counters, courters, currents, recounts, reoccurs, stuccoer, succorer, trouncer, trounces.

-3 letters: concert, concurs, contuse, corners, cornets, cornute, correct, counter, courser, courter, couters, current, encrust, recount, rectors, reoccur, returns, rouster, routers, scorner, scourer, scouter, snorter, tenours, tonsure, tourers, trounce, trouser, turners.

-4 letters: censor, centos, cercus, cerous, concur, contes, corers, corner.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-n-o-r-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: concurrents, reconstruct.

 

+2 letters: conjecturers, contractures, countercries, crosscurrent, reconstructs.

 

+3 letters: counterforces, crosscurrents, deconstructor, overconstruct, reconstructed, reconstructor.

 

+4 letters: countercharges, countermarches, deconstructors, micropunctures, overconstructs, preconstructed, recirculations, reconstructing, reconstruction, reconstructive, reconstructors, superconductor.

 

+5 letters: countercultures, countercurrents, counterprojects, counterpunchers, overconstructed, reconstructible, reconstructions, superconductors, technostructure, unreconstructed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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