top-slice
verb [with object]
Take (part of a budget or fund) and allocate it to finance a specific project, service, etc.In certain circumstances additional tax relief is available by way of top slicing relief....
- The campaign for top slicing the licence fee to give funds to other suppliers of public service programmes is being revived.
- And they top slice the money from the education budget so there's less to spend on real education.
Rhymes
- Islamics
- Islamic State
- Islamification
- Islamism
- Islamist
- Islamistic
- Islamite
- Islamitic
- Islamitish
- Islamization
- Islamize
- Islamofascism
- Islamofascist
- Islamophobe
- Islamophobia
- Islamophobic
- island
- island arc
- island area
- Island Carib
- islander
- island-hop
- Islands of the Blessed
- island state
- personalised medicine