cost cutting

noun

: reduction in spending
The company needs to do some cost cutting.

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Notably, the figure is even greater than Warner’s nearly $55 billion of debt post-merger with Discovery, a burden that hamstrung the company for years and led to successive rounds of layoffs and relentless cost cutting. Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026 Still, to reach such a mass-market price, Apple did a substantial amount of cost cutting. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026 The National Institutes of Health says this is not a cost cutting measure and that pediatric brain tumor research remains a high priority. Karen Morfitt, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026 The company declined to comment on specific impacts to staffing as a result of the cost cutting, saying potential effects to jobs would be determined over the next several months. Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cost cutting

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“Cost cutting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cost%20cutting. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.

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