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cost-cut

/kawst-kuht, kost-/US // ˈkɔstˌkʌt, ˈkɒst- //

削减成本,成本削减,削减费用,削减开支

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cost-cut, cost-cut·ting.

    • : to reduce the cost of: to cost-cut expenditures.

Examples

  • Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

  • “The sensation these objects presented receded as their cost increased,” notes Rabinowitz.

  • In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?

  • Like him, they identified the Airbus A320 as an airplane extremely well fitted to low cost airline operations in Asia.

  • Malaysian-based entrepreneur Tony Fernandes has turned AirAsia into the most successful low cost airline in southeast Asia.

  • Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.

  • If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.

  • They feel that the system has few advantages to offer in return for the cost it entails upon them.

  • At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.

  • It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!