Usually means: Skip steps to save effort.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word cut corners:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. cut corners: Merriam-Webster
  2. cut corners: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cut corners: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cut corners: Vocabulary.com
  5. cut corners: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cut corners: Wiktionary
  7. cut corners: Dictionary.com
  8. cut corners: Rhymezone
  9. cut corners: FreeDictionary.org
  10. cut corners: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. cut corners: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. cut corners: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut corners: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut corners: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut corners: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cut corners)

verb:  To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
verb:  (idiomatic) To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.

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