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clear-cut
(clear-cut)
adjective
1
sharply defined; easy to perceive or understand:
we now had a clear-cut objective
2
(of an area) from which every tree has been cut down and removed:
clear-cut forests are unappealing for recreation
verb
(also
clear-fell
)
[
with object
]
cut down and remove every tree from (an area):
colonizers clear-cut large jungle tracts
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