cut across sth
— phrasal verb with cut uk/kʌt/us/kʌt/verb present participle cutting, past tense and past participle cut
(CROSS)
B2 to go straight from one side of an area to another instead of going around:
If we cut across the field, it'll save time.
(AFFECT)
C1 If a problem or subject cuts across different groups of people, all of those groups are affected by or interested in it:
Support for environmental issues cuts across traditional party lines.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Including and containing
- (right) down to idiom
- assimilate
- build sth in/into sth
- built-in
- cast
- cast your net wide idiom
- catholic
- factor
- factor sth in
- figure
- forget
- inbuilt
- incl
- include
- pack
- package
- rich
- subsume
- throw sth in
- wide-ranging
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