cut and paste

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cut and paste (third-person singular simple present cuts and pastes, present participle cutting and pasting, simple past and past participle cut and pasted)

  1. To compose a document by piecing together components of other documents.
  2. (computing) To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.

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  • In the computing sense, often loosely used instead of copy and paste even when the original data is not deleted.

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