cut costs

idiom

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

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The closures are part of its restructuring plan to cut costs and boost profitability. Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Fake windows can cut costs, but will travellers actually want them? Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2025 The study comes amid widespread concerns that the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence, the technology that underpins ChatGPT, could put many jobs at risk as US companies increasingly turn to AI to cut costs through greater automation. Ana Nicolaci Da Costa, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025 The program has been grossly abused by big consulting firms and used by tech companies and others to simply cut costs, rather than bring in top talent. Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025 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 6 Oct. 2025.

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