TO CUT DOWN

Definition: TO CUT DOWN

TO CUT DOWN

1. See under Cut , v. t.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO CUT DOWN

Books

• Divorce in New York: What You Need to Know About the Details of Divorce--And How to Use Mediation and Negotiations to Cut Down on Lengthy Court Battle (reference)

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We want to cut down on non-essential activities ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Cultivating early cotton crop in Crittenden County, Arkansas. The next stage will be "cotton chopping" to cut down the weeds. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

A trend by the health financing system and the health suppliers to cut down costs by reducing the fees of imaging diagnosis -and other medical practices- has lead the diagnostic professionals to a difficult situation, and has concentrated the sector in fewer players providing imaging services. (references)

Economic History

Morocco

Further liberalization of other sectors (flour and sugar) is likely to occur over the next few years as the GOM pursues its policy to cut down its budget deficit and improve rural development prospects. (references)

Political Economy

THAILAND

More recently, the government has restricted the supply of baht at any one time to 50 million (about $1.12 million) per non-resident counter party (unless there is an underlying transaction requiring the currency) to cut down on offshore speculation. (references)

Trade

Argentina

The operations in FTZ in public warehouse are assigned to the following types of companies: (a) New companies that have never operated in foreign trade and wish to try this system until their transactions volume increases; (b) Companies that already operate in foreign trade and want to cut down their operating costs; (c) Companies with small volume of transactions (purchases and sales), which make it excessively burdensome to maintain their own storage premises of 600 m2. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Chinese 

裁減 (to lessen, to reduce), 縮短 (to curtail), 摲 (mow), 削減 (to lower, to reduce). (various references)

German

(Baum) fällen. (various references)

Hungarian

megrövidít (redact, to abridge, to garble, to wrong), lerövidít (cut down, cut short, detruncate, short cut, to abridge, to curtail, to nick), ledönt (pull down, -threw, -thrown, to demolish, to fell, to knock over, to overthrow, to tip down, to topple, topple). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

切捨てる (to cast away, to discard, to omit, to slay, to truncate), 切り落とす (to lop off, to prune), 切り捨てる (to cast away, to discard, to omit, to slay, to truncate), 切り取る (to amputate, to cut off, to cut out, to excise, to tear off, to tear out, to whittle down), 切り伏せる (to slay), 切り�'す (to chop down, to fell), 切り下�'る (to cut and hang down, to cut shorter, to prune, to reduce), 切る (to be through, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to pause, to punch, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip, to turn off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりたおす (to chop down, to fell), きりすてる (to cast away, to discard, to omit, to slay, to truncate), きりおとす (to cut off, to lop off, to prune), きりさ�'る (to cut and hang down, to cut shorter, to prune, to reduce), きりふせる (to slay), きりとる (to amputate, to cut off, to cut out, to excise, to tear off, to tear out, to whittle down), きる (to be through, to behead, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to murder, to pause, to punch, to put on, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip, to turn off, to wear). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay utcay ownday.(various references)

decido. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cutdown, nutwood, woodcut.

-3 letters: cotton.

-4 letters: codon, condo, conto, count, donut, outdo, tondo, wound.

-5 letters: coon, coot, down, duct, dunt, nowt, onto, otto, toon, toot, tout, town, unco, undo, unto, wont, wood.

+2 letters: woodcutting.

+3 letters: woodcuttings.