cut away

1. 1.

   move quickly to another scene or focus when filming

   “`cut away now!' the director shouted”

   Broadercut
2. 2.

   remove by cutting off or away

   “cut away the branch that sticks out”

   Broadercut

   Narrowerundercut

Questions about cut away

What does cut away mean?

cut away means "move quickly to another scene or focus when filming". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is cut away a common word?

cut away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.