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PRESS CUTTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does press cutting mean?
• PRESS CUTTING (noun)
The noun PRESS CUTTING has 1 sense:
1. an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
Familiarity information: PRESS CUTTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
clipping; cutting; newspaper clipping; press clipping; press cutting
Context example:
he searched through piles of letters and clippings
Hypernyms ("press cutting" is a kind of...):
excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)
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