Definition of "clear cut" []

• Straightforward, obvious, simple, or basic. (adjective)
• Having had all trees cut. (adjective)
• To remove all trees or vegetation from an area (verb)

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• "He factor-analyzed Likert-type scale items measuring his respondents’ perceptions of new educational ideas to derive a set of attributes and found general support for the present framework, although the distinction between relative advantage and compatibility was not very clear cut and the status-conferring aspects of educational innovations emerged as a sixth dimension predicting rate of adoption status conferral is considered a sub-dimension of relative advantage in most conceptualizations."
• "The orders of Moses to the children of Ruben and of Gad are clear cut in the Pentateuch (Num., xxxii, 20 sqq.); so, too, is the execution of these orders by the Rubenites and Gadites in the lands of the"