Usually means: Has both positive and negative.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. cut both ways: Merriam-Webster
  2. cut both ways: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cut both ways: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cut both ways: Wiktionary
  5. cut both ways: Dictionary.com
  6. cut both ways: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut both ways: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cut both ways: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (cut both ways)

verb:  To have both benefits and drawbacks.
verb:  To have implications for something as well as its counterpart.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, both, ways.

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