Definition of "culling" [cull•ing]

• Present participle of cull. (verb)
• The act of culling; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal. (noun)
• Anything separated or selected from a mass. (noun)

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• "Well, we have to keep executing same game plan which we have in place today, which is to continue to focus on our operational efficiencies, continue to focus on pricing improvements and then not and I don't want to use the word culling, but continue to work on our network balance and making sure we are putting freight in the right lanes and perhaps taking some freight out of some lanes where we have some balance situations."
• "In what the Service is calling a "clarification" of its release, the NPS said it doesn't intend to impose a lead ban on hunters and anglers by 2010, only upon its staff members in culling operations."
• "In 2009, we will transition to non-lead ammunition in culling operations and dispatching sick or wounded animals."