cost-cutting

A form of cost cutting — The act of reducing one's spending.

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Meanings

nouncost-cutting (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of cost cutting; also used attributively

    a cost-cutting measure

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    Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.

    2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3
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APA

cost-cutting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cost-cutting

MLA

“cost-cutting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cost-cutting. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cost-cutting,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cost-cutting.

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