cull — Ⅰ. cull UK US /kʌl/ verb [T] INFORMAL WORKPLACE ► to reduce the number of people that work for a particular company by a large amount: »The programme of redundancies was intended to cull 1000 jobs. »The company has culled 1,900 people from its… … Financial and business terms
Cull — (k?l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Culled} (k?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Culling}.] [OE.cullen, OF. cuillir, coillir, F.cueillir, to gather, pluck, pick, fr. L. colligere. See {Coil}, v. t., and cf. {Collect}.] To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
cull — cull·age; cull; cull·er; … English syllables
cull — [kul] vt. [ME cullen < OFr coillir < L colligere: see COLLECT2] 1. a) to pick out; select [to cull facts from an encyclopedia] b) to pick out in order to discard or destroy [a librarian culled unneeded books] 2 … English World dictionary
Cull — Cull, n. A cully; a dupe; a gull. See {Cully}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
cull — [v1] pick out for reason choose, discriminate, elect, extract, glean, mark, optate, opt for, pluck, prefer, select, sift, single out, take, thin, thin out, winnow; concepts 41,142 cull [v2] gather accumulate, amass, collect, extract, garner,… … New thesaurus
cull — cull. См. выбраковка. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
cull — I verb accumulate, amass, carpere, choose, collect, decerpere, gather, glean, legere, make a selection, pick, pick out, pluck, round up, select, separate, sift, single out, sort out, winnow II index choose … Law dictionary
cull — vb pick, single, *choose, select, elect, opt, prefer … New Dictionary of Synonyms
cull — ► VERB 1) reduce the numbers of (animals) by selective slaughter. 2) select or obtain from a large quantity or a variety of sources. ► NOUN ▪ a selective slaughter of animals. ORIGIN Old French coillier, from Latin colligere gather together … English terms dictionary