cost-cutting

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Noun

cost-cutting (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of cost cutting; also used attributively:
    a cost-cutting measure
    • 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
      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.

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