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Cost Cutting

Definition: Cost Cutting

Cost Cutting

Noun

1. The act of cutting costs.

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


Non-Fiction Usage: Cost Cutting

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Malaysia

The retraction of the market has resulted in intense competition and aggressive cost cutting. (references)

Sri Lanka

In 2000, both banks implemented a process of loan recovery, tighter accounting, and began cost cutting measures. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Cost cutting is a major concern, and American companies must be aggressive in order to retain their market share. (references)

Trade

Finland

Tighter competition ensued from Finland's EU entry, accelerating cost cutting in the sector. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cost Cutting

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cost cutting increase need quickly revenue while

90

cost cutting

61

cost cutting hospital nonprofit

13

cost cutting measure

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Cost Cutting

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-g-i-n-o-s-t-t-t-u"

-2 letters: stuccoing.

-3 letters: cuttings, scouting, tungstic.

-4 letters: congius, costing, cutting, gnostic, ousting, outings, outsing, suction, tictocs, totting, tousing, touting, tutting.

-5 letters: coigns, coitus, conics, cosign, coting, counts, cousin, cutins, incogs, ingots, outing, outsin, outsit, stingo, stotin, stucco, tictoc, tigons, tincts, tocsin, tonics, toting, tunics, tuttis.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cost Cutting


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 73 74      43 75 74 74 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000011 01110101 01110100 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#67 &#117 &#116 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0073 0074      0043 0075 0074 0074 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37818586237878686758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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