cost-cuttingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkɒstˌkʌt.ɪŋ/us/ˈkɑːstˌkʌt̬.ɪŋ/actions taken to reduce the amount that is spent on a service or within an organization:
The recovery was achieved in the old-fashioned way, with cost-cutting and price increases.
a cost-cutting exercise
cost-cutting measures
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Paying money
- ante
- chargeable
- congestion charge
- demurrage
- disburse
- discharge
- disgorge
- fork
- fork out sth
- overspend
- pay up
- pick up the bill/tab idiom
- put sth down 1
- repayable
- self-financing
- sink
- spring
- square
- tip
- worth
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