cutover
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of cutover
1895–1900, adj., noun use of verb phrase cut over
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Prairies, chaparral, and cutover forestland were jammed full of these aliens.
From Slate ● May 25, 2020
For about a month, I've been contemplating a hard cutover to Lyft; leaving Uber as my backup service.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017
Nowadays the Forest Service runs a thriving business, selling prime wood to private lumbermen, reforesting cutover or burnt-out areas, farming the nation's trees on a longterm, big-business basis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out behind the logging camp is a huge cutover where they’ve taken off the trees.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
The trees were cutover hardwoods for the most part, but here and there a pine rose above them and an occasional gaunt stub towered over even the pines.
From The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard
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