opencast

1. 1.

   (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface

   “opencast mining”

   “an opencut iron mine”

   Synonymsopencut

   Similarsurface

   mining

Questions about opencast

What does opencast mean?

opencast means "(of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface".

How many syllables are in opencast?

opencast has 3 syllables: o-pen-cast. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for opencast?

Close synonyms include opencut. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is opencast a common word?

opencast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.