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cut-off date The date that determines whether a preference immigrant visa applicant can be scheduled for an immigrant visa interview in any given month. The cut-off date is the priority date of the first applicant who could not get a visa interview for a given month. Applicants with a priority date before or earlier than the cut-off date can be scheduled. However, if your priority date is later (comes after) the cut-off date, you will need to wait longer, until your priority date is reached (becomes current). To find out whether a preference case is current, see the Visa Bulletin or telephone (202) 663-1541. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Cut off
That which cuts off or shortens as a nearer passage or road...
Mutilate
Mutilate, means 'something less than total destruc-tion' or 'to deface'. The law Lexicon, Reprint Edn., 1995 - 'Mutilate to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body; to deprive of some essential part; to render imperfect.' Words and Phrases, Permanent Edition, Vol. 27A - 'Mutilate' means something less than total destruction...... 'To mutilate' in the sense in which it is generally used by law writers and judges, means to render imperfect...... 'mutilate'.......means to destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect erroneously defined word as applied to articles such as books and manuscripts, rather than defining it as applied to the human body as meaning to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body', the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edn., Vol. X, 'Mutilate - To render (a thing, especially a record, book, etc.) imperfect by cutting off or destroying a part. 'Mutilated of things: Having some part cut off or destroyed wanting some portion essential to com...
Snip
To cut off the nip or neb of or to cut off at once with shears or scissors to clip off suddenly to nip hence to break off to snatch away...
Detruncate
To shorten by cutting to cut off to lop off...
Intercept
A part cut off or intercepted as a portion of a line included between two points or cut off two straight lines or curves...
Lopping
A cutting off as of branches that which is cut off leavings...
Precisive
Cutting off Logic exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose as precisive censure precisive abstraction...
Banco
Banco, means a seat or bench of justice, a tract of land cut off by the shifting of a river's course especially land that has become cut off in such a manner from the country it originally belonged to, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 139.Banco [Ital.]. see BANC. A seat or bench of justice; also, in commerce, a word of Italian origin signifying a bank....
Coupons
Coupons [fr. Couper, Fr., to cut], interest and dividend certifictes; also those parts of a commercial instrument which are to be cut, and which are evidence of something connected with the contract mentioned in the instrument. They are generally attached to certificates of loan, where the interest is payable at particular periods, and, when the interest is paid, they are cut off and delivered to the payer. A coupon does not require a stamp; it is nothing more than an I.O.U....
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