painful cut
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpainfulandcut
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painful
adjective
uk/ˈpeɪn.fəl/us/ˈpeɪn.fəl/
causing emotional or ...
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cut
noun
uk/kʌt/us/kʌt/
an injury made when the skin is cut with ...
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(Definition ofpainfulandcutfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In some services there will have to bepainfulcut-backs, but priorities vary from one area to another and the final pattern can only be decided locally.
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Most of the high-spending authorities can achieve the savings that we seek without dramatic or unduly painful cuts.
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It will therefore have to make painful cuts in its services—but not because the council is profligate or loony.
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We have made sensible reforms and, as a result, have avoided the abrupt, arbitrary and painful cuts that some other countries have had to make.
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I think it has also been suggested that we have forced very painful cuts—this is really the burden of the argument—on the local authorities.
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These companies will be left with no alternative but to make the most drastic and painful cuts in their expenditure.
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Now, however, we are being forced to make these painful cuts.
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There will no doubt be painful cuts in the public expenditure round in the autumn and £19 billion will suddenly become a great sum.
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As we all know, they have had to accept the need to make painful cuts in the dairy sector.
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Revenue support grant has been fixed at levels which, it was asserted, represented substantial increases when, in reality, the grant made painful cuts in services inevitable.
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Painful cuts to public expenditure were enacted and implemented against considerable political resistance.
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