cutback

cutback Definition

cut·back (kut′bak′)

noun

the act or result of cutting back; specif.,

a reduction or discontinuance, as of production, personnel, etc.
☆ a sequence of earlier events introduced at a later point in a novel, film, etc.

cutback Usage Examples

Converse of object

announce: The recently announced cutbacks show just how hard this is going to be.
propose: Its budget is under extreme pressure, with the Scottish Executive proposing major cutbacks in its grant for SAC's education services.
face: Already NHS services across the country are facing crisis cutbacks.
make: To make further cutbacks is a disgrace to an already discredited system.
see: Jack Straw's first three years as Home Secretary saw similar cutbacks.

Noun used with modifier

budget: Restructuring and budget cutbacks are straining the system and placing accelerating demands on personnel.
staff: New technology for the regions comes only in exchange for staff cutbacks and the merging of local outposts.
service: Equally I have not seen any mention of the service cutbacks in the local media.

Adjective modifier

drastic: There won't be a drastic cutback in my work, or alteration in my lifestyle.
severe: Severe cutbacks on book budgets have been a low profile way of saving money by some authorities.
massive: The blame for the massive cutbacks lies with the Deputy Prime Minister's office, which has devised new criteria to award grants.
financial: A second round of even more severe financial cutbacks affected the University in the late 1980s.
significant: Over the last three months the most significant cutbacks in production were in the metals industry, where output was down by 2 % .
further: To make further cutbacks is a disgrace to an already discredited system.

Preposition: in

spending: Cutbacks in local authority spending meant a big rethink was needed.
expenditure: Cutbacks in educational expenditure meant that we were asked to reduce the staff from sixty to fifty-five.
funding: Despite continued lobbying all universities in the UK have suffered from recurrent cutbacks in core public funding over the last decade.
provision: Women are the first victims of any cutbacks in social welfare provision.
sector: The Business Opportunity Big cutbacks in the sector in the late 80s made CDS restructure its business.
service: He said that despite a reduction in numbers there was no reason for cutbacks in services.

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