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Adjective: slash-and-burn
  1. Denoting a method of preparing land for cultivation by cutting and then burning vegetation
    "USAID is alerting farmers in Madagascar to the dangers of slash-and-burn agriculture"
     
  2. Aggressive, crude, cutting or destructive
    "Five government departments have agreed their budgets ahead of the Chancellor's slash-and-burn spending review"

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