Betekenis van cull In het Nederlands

• 0 When people cull animals, they kill them, especially the weaker members of a particular group of them, in order to reduce or limit their number:

  • The plan to cull large numbers of baby seals has angered environmental groups.

• 1 to collect parts or pieces of something to use for another purpose:

  • She went to strange lands to cull recipes for her book.

  • to cull growing herds before they run out of food

  • culling dead timber

• 2 to reduce the number of people that work for a particular company by a large amount:

  • The programme of redundancies was intended to cull 1000 jobs.

  • The company has culled 1,900 people from its workforce.

• 3 a large reduction in the number of people that work for a particular company:

  • The cull will affect almost 15% of the 7,000 staff.

  • a management/staff cull