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cross-cast

cross-cast verb: to add up the separately computed totals from each column to ensure that they agree with the overall total.

Verb

cross-cast (third-person singular simple present cross-casts, present participle cross-casting, simple past and past participle cross-cast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) cross-casted)

  1. To add up the separately computed totals from each column to ensure that they agree with the overall total.
  2. To cast an actor of the opposite gender to play a part.

Forms of cross-cast

third-person singular presentcross-casts
present participlecross-casting
past participlecross-cast
pastcross-cast
past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimescross-casted
past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimescross-casted

Origin of cross-cast

From cross- + cast.

Questions about cross-cast

What does cross-cast mean?
Cross-cast means to add up the separately computed totals from each column to ensure that they agree with the overall total.
What part of speech is cross-cast?
Cross-cast is a verb.
What is the past tense of cross-cast?
The past tense of cross-cast is cross-cast.

Words near cross-cast in the dictionary

  1. cross-buy
  2. cross-buying
  3. cross-buys
  4. cross-cap
  5. cross-caps
  6. cross-cast
  7. cross-casting
  8. cross-casts
  9. cross-chain
  10. cross-chained
  11. cross-chaining

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