cutover

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having been cleared of valuable timber.
2. noun An area of cutover land.
3. noun The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
4. noun The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.
5. noun Any process of quickly replacing a machine or system so as to minimize downtime.

Similar words

transfer relocation offcut cut-down exempt discided precisive over abrupt clipped

Often followed by

lands land areas area and to forest of region