cut red tape
To reduce bureaucracy.
This insurance company is an expert at cutting red tape to process your claim faster.
verb
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
Would you please cut the cake?
Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, / With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
I have three diamonds to cut today.
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
adj
Having been cut.
The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone.[…]The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.
Reduced.
The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
Carved into a shape; not raw.
Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?
That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
noun
The act of cutting.
He made a fine cut with his sword.
The act of cutting.
The act of cutting.
The result of cutting.
a smooth or clear cut
The result of cutting.