To cut across something.
To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
A crosswise cut.
A shortcut.
A crosscut saw.
A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
An instance of filmic crosscutting.
To cut down or reduce.
To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
To abridge; to curtail.
To live less expensively; to economize.
To confine; to limit; to restrict.
To take up a new defensive position.