short cut in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "short cut",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "short cuts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "hyphenation": "short‧cut",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We took the short cut on the way home so we could get there faster."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short cut is an easier and/or faster way."
      ],
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      ]
    },
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          "name": "Computing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I created a short cut for the program and placed it on the desktop."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short cut is a symlink (symbolic file link); an icon."
      ],
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      "raw_tags": [
        "computing"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/'ʃɔːtkʌt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/'ʃɔrtkʌt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "short cut"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "short cut",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "short cuts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "short‧cut",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We took the short cut on the way home so we could get there faster."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short cut is an easier and/or faster way."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I created a short cut for the program and placed it on the desktop."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short cut is a symlink (symbolic file link); an icon."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "computing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/'ʃɔːtkʌt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/'ʃɔrtkʌt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "short cut"
}

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"short cut" meaning in English

Noun