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[ verb ] cut down on; make a reduction in
Examples "reduce your daily fat intake" "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans],...)The prospect of cutting_back spending is an unpleasant one for any governor . |
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[ verb ] return in time
Synonyms Examples "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story" Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)As the robbers leave the looted train , the film suddenly cuts_back to the station , where the telegrapher 's little daughter arrives with her father 's dinner_pail only to find him bound on the floor . |
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