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- Dictionarycast·off/ˈkastäf/
adjective
- 1. no longer wanted; abandoned or discarded: "a pile of castoff clothes"
noun
- 1. something, especially a garment, that is no longer wanted: "I'm not going out in her castoffs!"
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1. : loose. cast off a hunting dog. 2. : unfasten. cast off a boat. 3. : to remove (a stitch) from a knitting needle in such a way as to prevent unraveling. intransitive verb. 1. : to unfasten or untie a boat or a line. 2. : to turn one's partner in a square dance and pass around the outside of the set and back. 3.
CASTOFF definition: something, esp. a piece of clothing, that you no longer want and give away: . Learn more.
adjective. thrown away; rejected; discarded: Out of a few pieces of castoff clothing she made herself a presentable new outfit. noun. a person or thing that has been thrown away or rejected: I refuse to accept second hand merchandise—some other person's castoffs.
CASTOFF definition: thrown away; discarded ; abandoned | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples.
: something or someone that is thrown out or replaced. The books were mostly castoffs from other schools. He assembled a bunch of castoffs [=players fired by other teams] into a good football team. a social castoff [= reject] — see also cast off at 1 cast 1. CASTOFF meaning: something or someone that is thrown out or replaced.
Define castoff. castoff synonyms, castoff pronunciation, castoff translation, English dictionary definition of castoff. n. 1. One that has been discarded. 2. Printing A calculation of the amount of space a manuscript will occupy when set into type. adj. also cast-off...
Definition of castoff noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Dec 5, 2023 · castoff (plural castoffs) Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject.
n castoff a person or thing that has been discarded or abandoned an estimate of the amount of space that a piece of copy will occupy when printed in a particular size and style of type
Definitions of 'castoff' 1. thrown away; discarded; abandoned. [...] 2. a person or thing cast off. [...] 3. Printing. an estimate of the lines or pages of type to be set from a given amount of copy. [...] More. Examples of 'castoff' in a sentence.
