press cutting
- noun
- Literature
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recorte de prensa
- The first is full of press cuttings and some gruesome-looking snaps.
About four weeks into the show, somebody said, oh, we've got the first press cuttings.
- About four weeks into the show, somebody said, oh, we've got the first press cuttings.
- And then we can say the same of the press cuttings and the other notes.
Examples
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She keeps all her press cuttings in a scrapbook for future reference.
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And then we can say the same of the press cuttings and the other notes.
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I read your press cuttings.
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So I put this whole package together with an audition tape and all my press cuttings and the fact I've done radio in England and in Austria.
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Jurina picks up the story as he leafs through bulging files of press cuttings covering the dig.
Academic text (2005) -
And while you're storming Moscow, Napoleon, I suppose I'm expected to sit at home, like Josephine, saving your press cuttings and knitting your mittens.
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I found an old press cutting about the town's history while cleaning the attic.
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The journalist reviewed her press cuttings to gather information for her book.
Synonyms
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3.5
A small piece taken from something larger, like a newspaper article or plant for growing
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1.9
A small piece cut from a newspaper containing an article or photo
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2.3
A small piece cut from a newspaper that people keep to remember something
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3.2
A short article cut from a newspaper or magazine kept for reference
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an article or piece cut out from a newspaper' is directly derivable from combining 'press' (newspapers/journalists) with 'cutting' (a piece removed or kept). This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase (often realised as 'press cutting' or 'press clipping') and follows common patterns found in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Press cutting may come from the old habit of cutting a story out of a paper made by the printing press. The cutting (the piece people cut out) was kept as a 'record', so the phrase now means 'an article cut out and saved'.