cut costs

phrase

: to spend less money
The company has tried to cut costs in several areas.

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Companies use self-service technology to cut costs, but risk losing customers when the technology fails without human support. Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 10 July 2026 To cut costs, Microsoft is pushing to have Microsoft 365 AI prompts answered by its internal MAI models rather than by Anthropic and OpenAI models, according to Bloomberg. Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 8 July 2026 Financially motivated activists may push a company to cut costs, sell parts of its business, return more money to shareholders or avoid risky investments. Hadi Shaheen, The Conversation, 7 July 2026 On the one hand, this does seem inevitable, both in terms of industry direction and the desire to cut costs however possible. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for cut costs

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“Cut costs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cut%20costs. Accessed 16 Jul. 2026.

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