cast off (third-person singular simple present casts off, present participle casting off, simple past cast off or casted off, past participle cast off)
- (transitive) To discard or reject something.
2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times[1]:Mr. Christie, who as a presidential candidate has frequently suppressed his most pugilistic instincts, cast off any restraint and did what he does best: slice and slash.
- (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.
- (intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
- (printing, historical) To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy.
2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing, page 102:To conserve type, copy was "cast off"; that is, type needed for the initial pages was estimated so that the pages need not be composed in the same sequence as the copy.
discard or reject
- Finnish: hylätä (fi)
- French: abandonner (fr)
- Galician: rexeitar (gl)
- Hungarian: ledob (hu), levetkőz (hu), megszabadul (hu), levet (hu), elvet (hu), sutba dob, eldob (hu), kiselejtez (hu), elhajít (hu)
- Latin: repudiō
- Maori: ākiri
- Portuguese: rechaçar (pt), descartar (pt), eliminar (pt)
- Slovak: odvrhnúť, zavrhnúť
- Spanish: rechazar (es), descartar (es), eliminar (es)
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finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle