亚洲网紅露点

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cutback

[ kuht-bak ]

noun

  1. a reduction in rate, quantity, etc.:

    a cutback in production.

  2. a return in the course of a story, motion picture, etc., to earlier events.
  3. Football. a play in which the ball-carrier abruptly reverses direction, especially by starting to make an end run and then turning suddenly to run toward the middle of the line.
  4. a maneuver in surfing of heading the surfboard back toward a wave's crest.


cutback

/ 藞办蕦迟藢产忙办 /

noun

  1. a decrease or reduction
  2. another word (esp US) for flashback
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to shorten by cutting off the end; prune
  2. whenintr, foll by on to reduce or make a reduction (in)
  3. intr (in films) to show an event that took place earlier in the narrative; flash back
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of cutback1

First recorded in 1895鈥1900; noun use of verb phrase cut back
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The Committee to Protect Journalists, which is helping MBN with legal representation to restore its funding, called the cutbacks 鈥渁 betrayal of the U.S.鈥檚 historical commitment to press freedom.鈥

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The Astronomical Society warns that our cutbacks will outsource talent 鈥渢o other countries that are increasing their investments in facilities and workforce development.鈥

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And it exacerbated the economic pains in a region already reeling from cutbacks in the timber industry.

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Some in the advertising industry are already fretting because spending on their services are often to first to suffer when there are budget cutbacks.

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The cutbacks, enforced by Musk鈥檚 advisory team known as the Department of Government Efficiency, represent a 12% reduction of the agency鈥檚 workforce.

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