shortcut

shortcut
I. noun Date: 1637 1. a route more direct than the one ordinarily taken 2. a method or means of doing something more directly and quickly than and often not so thoroughly as by ordinary procedure <
a shortcut to success
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II. verb (-cut; -cutting) Date: 1915 transitive verb to shorten (as a route or procedure) by use of a shortcut; also circumvent intransitive verb to take or use a shortcut

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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