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cut-and-paste
[ kuht-n-peyst ]
adjective
- assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces:
The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
cut and paste
noun
- a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
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Describing a patched-up job or trivial work. For example, The revision was easy, just cut and paste , or The new assistant had expected some training, but all she got was cut and paste . This term alludes to simple artwork done by small children—cutting out pictures and gluing them to paper. [Mid-1900s]Advertisement
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