Cutback may refer to:
* Cutback (roller coaster), a type of roller coaster inversion.
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* Cutback, in nuclear engineering, an automatic safety protective response in which reactor instrumentation sensing an unsafe condition causes a
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cutback — n. 1. a reduction in quantity or rate; a reduction in the amount of an activity or the funding for an activity; as, cutbacks in government research funding increased unemployment among scientists; the recession caused a cutback in auto production … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
cutback — cut‧back [ˈkʌtbæk] noun [countable usually plural] a reduction in something, such as the number of workers in a company or the amount of money a company or government spends: • Financial cutbacks have led to a decline in the number of staff… … Financial and business terms
cutback — index decrease Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
cutback — [n] decrease abatement, belt tightening, curtailment, decline, decrement, economy, lessening, lowering, reduction, reversal; concept 698 Ant. increase, raise … New thesaurus
cutback — ► NOUN ▪ a reduction, especially in expenditure … English terms dictionary
cutback — [kut′bak΄] n. the act or result of cutting back; specif., a) a reduction or discontinuance, as of production, personnel, etc. ☆ b) a sequence of earlier events introduced at a later point in a novel, film, etc … English World dictionary
cutback — n. a cutback in (a cutback in production) * * * [ kʌtbæk] a cutback in (a cutback in production) … Combinatory dictionary
cutback — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ drastic, major, severe, sharp ▪ budget, budgetary, economic, financial ▪ production … Collocations dictionary
cutback — UK [ˈkʌtˌbæk] / US noun [countable] Word forms cutback : singular cutback plural cutbacks a reduction in something such as the amount of money available to spend cutback in: Many hospitals face cutbacks in services. The company will be forced to… … English dictionary
cutback — cut|back [ˈkʌtbæk] n [C usually plural] a reduction in something, such as the number of workers in a company or the amount of money a government or company spends ▪ The shortage of teachers was blamed on government cutbacks. cutback in ▪ cutbacks … Dictionary of contemporary English
