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noun piece cut out from a newspaper ADJ. newspaper, press She had kept all the press cuttings about the murder. PREP. ~ from a cutting from ‘The Guardian’ piece cut off from a plant ADJ. leaf, root, stem VERB + CUTTING take CUTTING + VERB root, take After about four weeks you will be able to see whether the cuttings have taken. PREP. from a/the ~ These plants are easy to propagate from leaf cuttings. | ~ from Take cuttings from mature plants in the spring.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary