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Definition: Cut Corners |
Cut CornersVerb1. 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. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
Expression using "cut corners": to cut corners. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 сокращать путь. (various references) hvatati prečicu. (various references) cortar camino (cut across, take a shortcut). (various references) ta genvägar. (various references) ucuza halletmek, kestirme yoldan halletmek. (various references) скорочувати відстань. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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