Definition of "cut-off" []

• Alternative spelling of cutoff. (noun)
• Having had shirt sleeves or pantlegs shortened by cutting material from the end. (adjective)

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• "The bayou once served as a shortcut, known as a cut-off, from the Mississippi River south to the Gulf, but was dammed shut in 1904."
• "She cut-off business in the House so that she, and 21other "true politicians", could fly to Copenhagen, at enormous cost to the taxpayer and to the atmosphere, for a 24 hour visit to meetings in which she took no part."
• "Since these animals will declare anything a PEC, any temporal breach will suffice as an excuse to cut-off benefits."