Usually means: Release from attachment or restraint.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word cast off:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. cast-off, cast off: Merriam-Webster
  2. cast off, cast off, cast off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cast-off, cast-off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cast-off, cast off: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cast-Off, cast-off: Wordnik
  6. cast-off, cast off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cast-off, cast off: Wiktionary
  8. Cast-off, cast-off, cast off: Dictionary.com
  9. Cast-off: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. cast-off: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. cast off: Rhymezone
  12. Cast-off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. cast-off, cast off: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cast-off, cast off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cast-off, cast off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. cast off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cast off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cast-off, cast off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cast off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cast off: Idioms
  2. cast-off: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cast off: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CAST OFF: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See cast_offs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cast off)

verb:  (transitive) To discard or reject something.
verb:  (ambitransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.
verb:  (intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
verb:  (printing, historical) To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy.

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