belt-tightening

Examples of belt-tightening in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Other belt-tightening measures include eliminating corporate first- and business-class travel, as well as pausing spending on outside consultants, charitable contributions, and advertising and marketing. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2024 Collectively, these banks cut over 5,000 jobs as part of belt-tightening measures, PYMNTS reported. Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024 Amid a difficult stretch for L.A.’s restaurant industry, even the choice of which pizza box to use is something belt-tightening proprietors consider. Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024 But though the industry is in a belt-tightening phase, no one is predicting the demise of the art form altogether. Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024 With the new 10% belt-tightening order, that means the administration must figure out a way to trim that price tag by about $586 million. Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024 The studio's belt-tightening — squeezing the budget down to $3.5 million due to Romero's unwavering artistic stance — left the director to later lament the divergence from his original ambitions. James Mercadante, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023 Google has been on a belt-tightening, price-raising mission for about a year now, and part of that has involved across-the-board subscription price increases. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2023 Shares in Spotify jumped more than 11% when the New York Stock Exchange opened Monday, a familiar reaction to headcount reductions, with investors seeing belt-tightening as a good sign for reining in unnecessary staffing costs. Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 6 Dec. 2023

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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belt-tightening. Accessed 4 Oct. 2024.

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