Cull (Noun)
Meaning
The person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The store's winter clearance sale featured the cull of last season's coats that had not sold well.
- In the gardening competition, the judges examined each plant carefully before declaring the one with the most wilted leaves as the cull.
- The hiring manager regretted that several strong candidates would be the cull due to limited available positions.
- At the apple farm, the farmer regularly removed the cull, the fruit that was bruised or worm-eaten, from the baskets.
- In the publisher's editing process, several promising story ideas were ultimately deemed the cull due to the publisher's limited resources.