rough cut

noun

: a print of an incompletely edited movie

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Brody had seen a rough cut; Chapman was viewing it for the first time. Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2025 The documentary of the two major parties’ presidential nominees has been a quadrennial tradition, and its filmmaker, Michael Kirk, had weeks earlier screened a four-hour rough cut of Biden vs. Trump. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024 Reps for Netflix declined to comment, but sources say that Sutter’s exit from the show came over creative differences after Netflix saw a rough cut of the first episodes. Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024 Subsequently, Singh is understood to have shot a considerable amount of footage for the documentary and there is a rough cut of the film, which has now been caught up in the rights battle. Peter White, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rough cut 

Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of rough cut was in 1937

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“Rough cut.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rough%20cut. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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