CUTOFF

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-007159",
  "term": "CUTOFF",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Breaking, or ending, files at regular intervals, usually at the close of a fiscal or calendar year, to permit their disposal or transfer in complete blocks and, for correspondence files, to permit the establishment of new files. Case files are generally cut off at the end of the year in which the case is closed. Cutoff is sometimes abbreviated as COFF and is also called file cutoff or file break. See also BLOCK (1).",
  "abbreviation": "COFF",
  "expansions": [
    "FILE BREAK",
    "FILE CUTOFF"
  ],
  "subject": "Policy and guidance",
  "references": [
    "Records Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/cutoff/"
}