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cutback

[ kuht-bak ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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.

cutback

/ ˈkʌtˌbæk /

tr to shorten by cutting off the end; prune
whenintr, foll by on to reduce or make a reduction (in)
intr (in films) to show an event that took place earlier in the narrative; flash back

Origin of cutback¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase cut back

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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