stralcio

excerpt, extract

noun STRAHL-choh Rare

Also means

partial cancellation (legal)

Usage Note

Stralcio in everyday usage means an excerpt or extract from a document (uno stralcio del verbale, 'an excerpt from the minutes'). In legal and financial contexts it means the partial write-off of a debt or the removal of an item from a budget (in stralcio = 'as a partial settlement'). The plural is stralci.

Examples

"Il giornale ha pubblicato uno stralcio del rapporto."

Natural Translation

The newspaper published an excerpt from the report.

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