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cross-refer

 verb
     
Related topics: Newspapers, Publishing
cross-refer past tense and past participle cross-referred, present participle cross-referring [intransitive and transitive]
TCN to tell a reader to look in another place in the book they are reading, so that they can get further information
cross-refer to/from
The author cross-refers to his other books.
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