cut costs

phrase

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

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Gado via Getty Images This midsize, four-door pickup will be the first vehicle built on Ford’s Universal Electric Vehicle Platform, an architecture created specifically to cut costs and simplify production. Josh Max, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Self Inspection also says that its customers have saved more than 300,000 operational hours and cut costs by more than $80 million so far. Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026 Nick Nickson, the Hall-of-Fame voice of the Los Angeles Kings before his retirement two seasons ago, doesn’t doubt that clubs see the opportunity to simulcast the TV broadcast over radio as a way to cut costs. Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 This could shorten development times, cut costs and allow smaller teams to do work that once required much larger organizations. Martin Halliwell, Space.com, 3 Aug. 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 14 Aug. 2026.

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