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So Kagan plays megaphone to "some Pentagon officials and congressional conservatives" by claiming there's a "cut" in the budget, when the cut is actually in the wish list, a cut that happens every year, something which Pentagon officials know full well, which is why they ask for more than they know they'll get.

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  1. transitive verb To penetrate with a sharp edge; strike a narrow opening in.
  2. transitive verb To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever: cut cloth with scissors.
  3. transitive verb To sever the edges or ends of; shorten: cut one's hair.
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  • Though, looking over my selec tion, I didn't actually pick any December albums, so … In fact, what didn't make the cut is as notable here as what did. —  Hot Artists at Elbo.ws
  • This cut was also abridged and Clemons 'famous sax solo came a little too early, failing to be the explosive release valve that it typically provides on record or live. —  TheBostonChannel.com - News
  • In fact, under the cut is a list of companies that say they're going to make it to the big show being held June 2-4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. —  G4TV - The Feed
  • It now seems that this cut was all part of a master plan by M&S to fiddle their employees, knowing that they were going to make redundancies in the new year. —  Recruitment Views
  • Fighting just to make the cut are a number of very talented players, including 3 of the 4 leading money winners on tour: —  Mostly Harmless
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English cutten.

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  1. Early modern English also cutte (Scots kit); from Middle English cutten, kutten, also kitten, and rarely ketten (preterit cutte, kutte, kitte, cut, kit, past participle cut, also preterit kittede, past participle cutted, kitted), cut, a word of great frequency, first appearing about adjective d. 1200, in preterit cutte, and taking the place as a more exact term of the more general words having this sense (carve, hew, slay, snithe); of Celtic origin: cf. Welsh cwtau, Gaelic cutaich, shorten, dock, curtail; Welsh cwta, Cornish cut, Gaelic Irish cutach, short, docked; Welsh cwt = Gaelic Irish cut, a tail, a bobtail; Gaelic cut, Irish cot, a piece, participle
  2. Pp. of cut, v.
 

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