cost cutting

noun

: reduction in spending
The company needs to do some cost cutting.

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Despite layoffs and cost cutting, officials said that TSU could once again run out of money by May. Adam Tamburin, Axios, 22 Jan. 2025 However successful the cost cutting was, X’s market value has now dropped to $9.4 Billion (according to Fidelity Investments) versus the $44 Billion Musk paid for it, due to dissatisfaction with its policies and performance and defections of advertisers and users to other social media platforms. Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 The structure of contemporary insurance incentives actively encourages risk avoidance and cost cutting rather than any analysis of total economic and clinical value over a continuum of care. Rita Numerof, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 The original Floridian ran through Nashville and into Alabama but Amtrak halted the service in October 1979 amid cost cutting measures recommended by the federal government. Sandy Mazza, The Tennessean, 17 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cost cutting 

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“Cost cutting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cost%20cutting. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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