What does cut corners mean?
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cut cor·ners
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Princeton's WordNet
cut cornersverb
do something the cheapest or easiest way
"Cut corners to make a cheaper product"
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cut cornersverb
To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
cut cornersverb
To do a less than thorough or complete job; to do something poorly or take short cuts.
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cut corners
Cutting corners refers to the act of taking shortcuts, bypassing necessary procedures, or reducing quality or standards in order to save time or money, often leading to sub-optimal outcomes.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cut corners in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cut corners in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of cut corners in a Sentence
It involves people from Maine to Mississippi to California. Every state in the Union has experienced the same sort of struggle here between the body shops trying to do the work the right way, and the insurance companies trying to cut corners and force them to use unsafe parts and unsafe methods on their cars.
If they cut corners on the environmental analysis, this guidance would give us a yardstick to hold up to what the agencies did and argued they have n’t gone far enough.
China's growth in the chemicals industry has been extremely rapid in the last 15 years or so. It's grown from being a major importer to being a major producer of almost every single petrochemical you can think of today, there are producers who are known to cut corners, in terms of regulation. There are very blatant examples of people constructing plants and almost getting into production even before the whole project has been approved.
We will not cut corners in our decision making.
This is not the time to cut corners, always wash your hands, always use hand sanitizer. Don't touch your face. Don't rub your eye. Right ? And disinfect your contact lenses.
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