/ ˈeksɜːpt; NAmE -sɜːrpt/ noun
excerpt (from sth) a short piece of writing, music, film, etc. taken from a longer whole
► ex·cerpt verb [ vn ] excerpt sth (from sth) :
The document was excerpted from an unidentified FBI file.
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WORD ORIGIN
mid 16th cent. (as a verb): from Latin excerpt- plucked out, from the verb excerpere , from ex- out of + carpere to pluck.