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cut costs

idiom

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

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Wiemer was the Milwaukee Brewers' fourth-round draft pick in 2020, a year when the annual MLB Draft was sliced to only five rounds from 40 as owners looked to cut costs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Nov. 2025 In 2020, WisconsinEye furloughed some of its employees and made other decisions to cut costs as donations dried up during the pandemic. Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 20 Nov. 2025 Some airlines recognized the crisis quickly, moving from denial to acceptance within a month or two, and taking bold steps to cut costs and preserve cash. David Podolsky, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025 That helps explain why cybersecurity spending remains one of the few areas of IT budgets that continues to rise, even as enterprises cut costs elsewhere. Paulina Likos, CNBC, 17 Nov. 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 27 Nov. 2025.

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