cost-cutting

English

Noun

cost-cutting (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of cost cutting; also used attributively:

   a cost-cutting measure

   • 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:

     Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.

References

• “cost-cutting”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cost-cutting”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.