CAST-OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cast-off mean? 

• CAST-OFF (adjective)
  The adjective CAST-OFF has 1 sense:

1. thrown away

  Familiarity information: CAST-OFF used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAST-OFF (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thrown away

Synonyms:

cast-off; discarded; throwaway; thrown-away

Context example:

salvaged some thrown-away furniture

Similar:

unwanted (not wanted; not needed)

 Context examples 

The Event Horizon Telescope radio-dish network is designed to detect the light cast-off when objects disappear across that boundary.

(Astronomers Piece Together First Image of Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Some have whispered to you that she is my bastard half-sister: some, my cast-off mistress.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George’s house, managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of his cast-off shoes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Barclay was, it appears, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and had interested herself very much in the establishment of the Guild of St. George, which was formed in connection with the Watt Street Chapel for the purpose of supplying the poor with cast-off clothing.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)