open-cut

[ oh-puhn-kuht ]

adjectiveMining.
  1. noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.

Origin of open-cut

1
First recorded in 1880–85

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open cut

noun
  1. civil engineering an excavation made in the open rather than in a tunnel: See cut-and-cover

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