cutback
[kuht-bak]
- 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.
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Origin of cutback
First recorded in 1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase cut back
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Contemporary Examples
I'm not sure how some lower-end retail workers are going to survive the cutback.
In the throes of cutback after cutback, the content being presented is suffering.
I always thought S'Bucks was a ripoff anyway, so that's a cutback that I really don't mind at all.
cutback
- a decrease or reduction
- another word (esp US) for flashback
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- (tr) to shorten by cutting off the end; prune
- (when intr, foll by on) to reduce or make a reduction (in)
- (intr) mainly US (in films) to show an event that took place earlier in the narrative; flash back
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