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short-cut

short-cut is the alternative spelling of shortcut.

Meaning of shortcut

Noun

shortcut (plural shortcuts)

  1. A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths.
  2. A method to accomplish something that omits one or more steps.
    • East Midlands Railway is introducing new shortcuts for claiming compensation in the event of late-running services.2021 November 3, “Network News: EMR changes claims process”, in RAIL, number 943, page 15
  3. A file that points to the location of another file and serves as a quick way to access it.
    • There are shortcuts to some of my favourite applications on my desktop.

See all 4 meanings of shortcut

Forms of short-cut

Noun
pluralshort-cuts
Verb
third-person singular presentshort-cuts
present participleshort-cutting
past participleshort-cut
pastshort-cut

Questions about short-cut

What is short-cut the alternative spelling of?
Short-cut is the alternative spelling of shortcut.

Words near short-cut in the dictionary

  1. short-coat
  2. short-coated
  3. short-coating
  4. short-coats
  5. short-corner
  6. short-cut
  7. short-cuts
  8. short-cutting
  9. short-dated
  10. short-distance
  11. short-eared dog

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-cut (page history and authors); shortcut (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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