cutoff

IPA: kˈʌtɔf

The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
(medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
A device that stops the flow of a current.
A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
A cessation in a flow or activity.
(poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
(fashion, chiefly in the plural) Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
(journalism) A horizontal line separating sections of the page.

Constituting a limit or ending.
(psychology, medicine) Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.

cut off

IPA: kˈʌtˈɔf

Alternative form of cutoff [The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.]

(transitive) To remove via cutting.
(transitive) To isolate or remove from contact.
(transitive) To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
(transitive) To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
(transitive) To end abruptly.
(transitive) To interrupt (someone speaking).
(transitive) (North American) swerve in front of (another car) while driving; cut [someone] up
(transitive) to move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
(transitive, US, regional, Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).

IPA: kˈʌtɔf

Alternative spelling of cutoff [The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.]

Having had shirt sleeves or pantlegs shortened by cutting material from the end.

Since these animals will declare anything a PEC, any temporal breach will suffice as an excuse to cut-off benefits.
The bayou once served as a shortcut, known as a cut-off, from the Mississippi River south to the Gulf, but was dammed shut in 1904.
If a company ranks below any metric's 2000 list cut-off see above minimum cut-off values, it receives a zero score for that metric.
A senior U.S. diplomat visiting Asia says China did not expect North Korea to abruptly cut-off dialogue with South Korea last week.
Must have been some kind of cut-off point, after which women on his list widowed, elderly, presumed to go to bed early might be offended.
She cut-off business in the House so that she, and 21other "true politicians", could fly to Copenhagen, at enormous cost to the taxpayer and to the atmosphere, for a 24 hour visit to meetings in which she took no part.
As Theroux so eloquently puts it, "As an adult traveling alone in remote and cut-off places, I learned a great deal about the world and myself: the strangeness, the joy, the liberation and truth of travel, the way loneliness -- such a trial at home -- is the condition of a traveler."