cut-through

English

Alternative forms

• cut through

Etymology

From cut +‎ through.

Noun

cut-through (plural cut-throughs)

1. A shortcut; a route that goes through a particular area or property.
2. (figurative) Reach, influence.
   • 2022 March 29, Dr Peter Mangan, “What Labour must do to cut through to voters”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, Letters:

     It is the public mood that a party needs to assess and then recast in order to achieve cut-through and gain votes.

Further reading

• “cut-through”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.