Final cut
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 In the movie industry, the final released version of a film. idiomatic
- 2 the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer wordnet
- 3 The group that remains when a selection process has eliminated other candidates. broadly, idiomatic
Etymology
From the fact that in the days of physical film for cinema, the strips of film on which various scenes and takes were recorded had to be cut into pieces and spliced together into a resultant composite strip.