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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cutting edge
noun
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▪ But the cutting edge doesn't come cheap.
▪ But this is the cutting edge of labor.
▪ Each at the cutting edge of possibility within its own historical context, each a breakthrough in the standards of its day.
▪ However, it all boils down to execution at the cutting edge.
▪ However, we now understand that the imagery of the cutting edge is so much stronger and powerful than we believed.
▪ Settlement houses and settlement house workers were at the cutting edge of social change.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cutting edge

also cutting-edge, 1825 in the literal sense (often at first with reference to plows); figurative sense is from 1964.

Wiktionary
cutting edge

a. (alternative form of cutting-edge English) n. 1 the sharp edge of the blade of a knife or other cutting tool 2 (context idiomatic English) (''by extension'') the forefront, or position of greatest advancement in some field

WordNet
cutting edge

  1. n. the position of greatest advancement; the leading position in any movement or field [syn: vanguard, forefront]

  2. the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife [syn: knife edge]

Wikipedia
Cutting edge

Cutting edge or The Cutting Edge may refer to:

  • The cutting surface of a blade or other cutting tool
  • State of the art, the highest level of development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field
  • The Cutting Edge (sculpture), a sculpture at Sheaf Square in Sheffield, England
Cutting Edge (TV series)

Cutting Edge is a British TV documentary series broadcast by Channel 4. It has been Channel 4's flagship documentary series since 1990 that focuses on political and social issues.

Cutting Edge (recordings)

Cutting Edge is a series of recordings made by the British rock band Delirious?. The songs were originally written for a regular youth event, Cutting Edge, in the band's home town of Littlehampton. Through this, the band gained its first name, The Cutting Edge Band, which was later changed to Delirious? when the band went full-time in 1996.

Reviewing the 1998 United States release, CCM magazine found that the band had created "a modern hymnody for generations raised on rock 'n 'roll." One major lyrical break from older styles of hymns, however, was the lack of masculine and patriarchal pronouns.

Cutting Edge (album)

Cutting Edge is the debut album by the Swedish punk rock band Franky Lee, released on January 29, 2007 by Burning Heart Records.

Cutting Edge (band)

Cutting Edge established in Oslo, Norway (1981–1986, 2002), was a Norwegian jazz-rock quintet, known from three recordings in the 1980s, and cooperation with Jan Eggum on the album E.G.G.U.M (1985).