Cut Back

Definition: Cut Back

Cut Back

Verb

1. Return in time; of films or stories.

2. Cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits".

3. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of "dress the plants in the garden".

4. Place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Fine Arts

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cut Back

Economy

Verb: be economical; Adjective: practice economy; economize, save; retrench, cut back expenses, cut expenses; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way, pay as you go; husband; (lay by).

Crosswords: Cut Back

Cut back on cholesterol. (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

I thought you said you were gonna cut back on the drinking. (Profiler; writing credit: Katerina Marinaki)

Just try to cut back on the sweets, Okay? (The Santa Clause; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick)

He slice the wax cut forward cut back (I Wanna Rock; performing artist: Prince)

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Health

Cut back on added butter, mayonnaise, sweets, and other extras. (references)

After you identify foods that seem to cause problems, cut back on them and see whether incontinence improves. (references)

Diet for transplant patients is less limited than it is for dialysis patients, although you may still have to cut back on some foods. (references)

Business

The Thai military will certainly need to cut back its redundant military units as more advanced hardware is introduced. (references)

The disadvantages associated with employing American workers have forced American firms to cut back the size of their American staff, often employing Arabs or South Asians, and in some cases employing Europeans rather than Americans. (references)

The "Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris" (AP-HP), the largest group of public hospitals in Europe with 50 hospitals, 750 types of medical service and 88,125 employees, offers 28,134 "in-house" beds and only 1,050 HAD beds. According to French regulations, in order to increase the HAD beds it offers by one, AP-HP, like any other public hospital in France, would be forced to cut back on two of its own in-house beds. As AP-HP hospitals are public and have a fixed annual budget, reductions in in-house beds will not mean they will be allowed to fire employees or easily reassign them to HAD care. Therefore, by increasing HAD activity, their in-house costs remain almost the same, while new costs are incurred. (references)

Economic History

Brunei Darussalam

Since then it has been deliberately cut back to extend the life of oil reserves and improve recovery rates. (references)

Barbados

Poultry production fell, partly because the low price of imported chicken parts induced local producers to cut back output. (references)

Indonesia

Bank Indonesia introduced new foreign exchange regulations in January 2001 that have significantly cut back the flow of Rupiah to offshore markets. (references)

Political Economy

IRELAND

In the Commission's eyes, Ireland breached the European Union's Broad Economic Policy Guidelines, and it was obligated to either postpone future tax cuts or cut back on public spending. (references)

Trade

South Africa

Finally, it has cut back tariff lines from the 80 different levels of the past to eight levels ranging from zero to 30 percent with a few exceptions. (references)

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Albanian

shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), pres majë (obtruncate, trim, truncate), kthehem mbrapsht befas. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قلم (clip, cut, liner, manicure, pare, pen, prune, streak, stria, stripe, trim), ‏رجع (assign, back, come back, get back, give back, go back, pass back, rebound, reconsider, reestablish, reinstate, render, report back, resound, retreat, return, reverse, revert, send back, snap back, step back, turn, turn back, turn in), ‏شذب (cut, lop, manicure, pare, prune, refine, tip, trim, truncate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), подкастрям (clip, prune off, trim). (various references)

Chinese 

緊縮 (reduce, tighten). (various references)

Czech

zkrátit (abbreviate, abridge, Bob, condense, curtail, cut, cut down, cut short, dock, reduce, shorten), snížit (abate, bring down, cut, cut down, debase, decrease, deplete, diminish, drop, knock, lessen, lop off, pull down, put down, reduce, whittle away), omezit (abate, circumscribe, confine, constrict, curb, curtail, cut down, decrease, deflate, limit, narrow, prune, restrict, retrench, scale down, terminate, trammel). (various references)

French

couper (cut, cut away, cut down, cut off), retour en arrière, rebrousser, montage sur retour arrière, flash back, élaguer. (various references)

German

zurückschrauben, zurückschneiden (chop back, poll, trim back), zurückgehen (abate, check back, double back, fall back, fall off, get back, go back, go down, head back, peak off, reach back, recede, reminiscence, retreat, retrograde, return, sag, shrink, slip back, to go back, to retrograde, trace back, turn back), verknappen (cut down, run short), sich einschränken (cut down, retrench), einschränken (confine, cut down, impinge, limit, moderate, narrow down, pare down, qualify, reduce, restrain, restrict, retrench, stint, to retrench, to stint), beschneidung (circumcision, clipping, curtailing, curtailment, lopping, paring, pruning, trimming), beschneiden (circumcise, clip, curtail, cut, dress, lop, pare, prune, to clip, trim, trimming), abbauen (abolish, break down, burn up, decompose, dismantle, mine, reduce, shed, strike, take down, to abolish, to dismantle, to slash, unship, work, work out). (various references)

Greek 

περικόπτω (abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut back on, dock, lop, pare, razee, retrench, trim). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'זום (clip, lop, prune, trim), קצוצים כספיים. (various references)

Hungarian

csökkent (abate, alleviate, attenuate, cut, decrease, diminish, look down, lower, mitigate, reduce, reduced, remit, step down, to abate, to abridge, to ax, to curtail, to cut back, to cut down, to deflate, to depress, to derogate, to ease, to ease down, to lessen, to lower, to pare down, to pull in, to put down, to reduce, to release, to send down, to slack, to slacken, to step down, tone down, understate), visszavág (hit back, Pollard, retort, riposte, strike back, to come back, to retort, to return to the charge), visszametszés (cut-back). (various references)

Italian

potare (clip, lop, prune, trim). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

蹴出す (to cut back, to kick out), 手控える (to hangback, to hold off, to jot down a note, to reduce or cut back on, to refrain). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

け� す (to cut back, to kick out), てびかえる (to hangback, to hold off, to jot down a note, to reduce or cut back on, to refrain). (various references)

Manx

giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references)

Pig Latin

utcay ackbay

Russian 

вернуться (make back, return), пойти обратно. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umanjiti (attenuate, decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, make a hole in, minify, minimize, reduce, turn down), smanjiti (abate, curtail, cut down, decrease, diminish, downsize, lessen, mitigate, pare down, rebate, reduce, slash, whittle away, whittle down). (various references)

Spanish

volver (abduce, call back, come back, get back, get in, go back, hark back, put back, return, ride back, throw back, to return, turn, turn about, turn around, turn away, turn over, turn round, turning), reducir (abridge, bring down, cut, cut down, cut down on, decrease, dock, lessen, lower, narrow, reduce, set, shorten, step down, weaken), recortar reducir gastos, recortar el presupuesto, recortar (clip, cut, cut off, cut out, dock, snip off, trim, trim down, truncate), acortar (abbreviate, abridge, clip, curtail, cut short, shorten, turn up). (various references)

Swedish

skära ner (ax, axe, condense, cut, cut down, prune, whittle down). (various references)

Turkish

kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), kısmak (abridge, attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, reduce, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), hikâyede geriye dönüş yapmak, eksiltme (decrease, derogation, detraction, diminution, lessening), budamak (amputate, chip, chop off, cut, lop, nip, nip off, pare, poll, Pollard, prune, prune away, prune off, trim, truncate), azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off). (various references)

Ukrainian

зменшувати (abate, allay, alleviate, ax, axe, belittle, decrease, detract, diminish, dwindle, extenuate, lessen, minify, palliate, relax, slacken, turn down, whittle away), повернутися (be back, get back, hike back, make back, re-enter). (various references)

praecidam, praecidant, praecidatur, praecide, praecident, praecidentes, praecidentesque, praecidentur, praeciderem, praeciderunt, praecidi, praecidit, praeciditque, praecisa, praecisam, praecisi, praecisionis, praecisum. (various references)

proignier. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cutback.

-3 letters: abut, back, buck, tabu, tack, tuba, tuck.

-4 letters: act, auk, bat, but, cab, cat, cub, cut, kab, kat, tab, tau, tub, uta.

-5 letters: ab, at, ba, ka, ta, ut.

+1 letter: cutbacks.

+2 letters: backcourt, touchback.

+3 letters: backcourts, touchbacks.

+4 letters: backcountry.

+5 letters: backcourtman, backcourtmen.