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cut back

/kuht-bak/US // ˈkʌtˌbæk //UK // (ˈkʌtˌbæk) //

缩减,削减,裁减,缩减开支

Related Words

decline衰退,减少,衰落,下降reduction减少,削减,缩减,降低reversal逆转,反转,逆转的,颠覆belt-tightening收紧皮带,收紧腰带,拧紧皮带,系紧皮带lowering降低,降低温度,减少,降低价格lessening减轻,减弱,减缓,减少abatement消减,减排,减免,减轻curtailment缩减,缩减开支,削减,缩水decrement递减,递减法,递减数,递减量economy经济,节约,经济性,经济效益

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a reduction in rate, quantity, etc.: a cutback in production.
    • : a return in the course of a story, motion picture, etc., to earlier events.
    • : Football. a play in which the ball-carrier abruptly reverses direction, especially by starting to make an end run and then turning suddenly to run toward the middle of the line.
    • : a maneuver in surfing of heading the surfboard back toward a wave's crest.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbeconomize
Synonyms
curb路边,遏止,路边的,马路牙子curtail缩减,削减,缩短,缩水cut down削减,砍伐,砍掉,削减了decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌lessen减轻,减少,减轻了,减低lower较低的,较低,低层,低级pare划线,帕尔,刡prune修剪,修枝,修理,修整reduce减少,降低,削减,缩小retrench缩减,缩紧,缩减开支,缩水shorten缩短,简化,缩减,弄短slash斜线,斜杠,斜线式,斜杠杠的trim修剪,修饰,修整,修剪的abbreviate缩略语,缩略,简略,缩减abridge桥,桥牌,桥接,桥段check检查,检查一下clip夹子,剪辑,剪切,剪贴画cut切,切割,削减,割mark down记下,减价,标记,减价出售mark off标示,隔离,标志着,纪念一下shave刮胡子,剃须,刮痧,脱毛

Examples

  • Indeed, city leaders recently asked city departments to outline cutbacks that could help close the city’s massive budget gap.

  • More than 60 local newsrooms shuttered over the course of 2020, while others have endured layoffs, furloughs and other cutbacks, according to journalism research organization Poynter.

  • He suspects that the company’s warning to employees could merely serve as a pretext for further cutbacks at Cumulus’s many stations.

  • Potential cutbacks will soon officially be on the table as the city stares down a projected $124 million deficit for the upcoming budget year.

  • This year, that may be even more the case if advertisers may have more than the usual amount of money carrying over from cutbacks in the spring and summer.

  • I'm not sure how some lower-end retail workers are going to survive the cutback.

  • In my view, this small cutback on the president's power will not prove that consequential.

  • In the throes of cutback after cutback, the content being presented is suffering.

  • I always thought S'Bucks was a ripoff anyway, so that's a cutback that I really don't mind at all.

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