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cutback
[ kuht-bak ]
noun
- a reduction in rate, quantity, etc.:
a cutback in production.
- a return in the course of a story, motion picture, etc., to earlier events.
- 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.
- a maneuver in surfing of heading the surfboard back toward a wave's crest.
cutback
/ ˈkʌtˌbæk /
noun
- a decrease or reduction
- another word (esp US) for flashback
verb
- tr to shorten by cutting off the end; prune
- whenintr, foll by on to reduce or make a reduction (in)
- intr (in films) to show an event that took place earlier in the narrative; flash back
Word History and Origins
Origin of cutback1
Example Sentences
Major cutbacks are planned at NHS England as part of government plans to "avoid duplication" with the Department of Health and Social Care.
No on-air correspondents or anchors at ABC News will lose their jobs in the cutbacks, according to one person familiar with the plans who was not authorized to comment publicly.
The staff cutbacks were reported previously by Politico.
Pulling back support for Europe also comes as the administration is beginning to make what promise to be drastic cutbacks on U.S. diplomatic presence at embassies and the virtual dismantling of the U.S.
All that was placed at risk by the threatened NIH cutback.
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