cut and paste

cut and paste (third-person singular simple present cuts and pastes, present participle cutting and pasting, simple past and past participle cut and pasted)

1. To compose a document by piecing together components of other documents.
2. (computing) To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.

• In the computing sense, often loosely used instead of copy and paste even when the original data is not deleted.

• cut-and-paste

• copy and paste
• clipboard
• copyright
• plagiarism