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cutdown

cutdown

5.5
A shorter version of a film, song, or show made for broadcast
  • noun
  • /ˈkʌtˌdaʊn/
  • Jargon
translation icon : versión reducida
  • The radio station played a cutdown of the song to fit their schedule.

Examples

  • They created a cutdown version of the commercial for social media.

  • The director released a cutdown of the movie for television.

  • The director released a special cutdown of the movie for television broadcast.

  • We watched a cutdown of the documentary that was only twenty minutes long.

  • The director released a cutdown of the film to make it more suitable for children.

  • For the television broadcast, they created a cutdown version of the original documentary.

  • The producer decided to provide a cutdown of the song to fit the radio format.

Antonyms

original
∞ 2.8

Not a copy and existing as the first form

full-size
21 2.5

As large as the original or usual model

How Short

snippet
36 4.8
cutdown
  • Jargon
5.5
abridgment
  • US
2 5.5

Surface Forms

cutdown singular
cutdowns plural

Morphology

cutdown = cut + down (transparent) = cut + down

This sense is a nominalization of 'cut down' in the editing sense (to shorten), which learners can derive from the components.

Etymology

The word cutdown comes from the words cut and down; in film and radio people cut parts to make a version 'shorter', so a cutdown is a shortened, edited version of a movie, song, or commercial.