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noun
1.
a reduction in rate, quantity, etc.: a cutback in production.
2.
a return in the course of a story, motion picture, etc., to earlier events.
3.
4.
a maneuver in surfing of heading the surfboard back toward a wave's crest.
Origin:
1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase cut back
1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase cut back
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Cutback
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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World English Dictionary
| cutback (ˈkʌtˌbæk) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a decrease or reduction |
| 2. | another word (esp US) for flashback |
| —vb (when intr, | |
| 3. | (tr) to shorten by cutting off the end; prune |
| 4. | to reduce or make a reduction (in) |
| 5. | chiefly (US) (intr) (in films) to show an event that took place earlier in the narrative; flash back |
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