cost-cutting measure

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cost-cutting
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkɒstˌkʌt.ɪŋ/us
/ˈkɑːstˌkʌt̬.ɪŋ/
actions taken to reduce the amount that is spent on a service or within ...
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measure
noun
uk
/ˈmeʒ.ər/us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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It was acost-cuttingmeasurethat was dressed up, with warm words, as community care.
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In principle, that seemed like a sensiblecost-cuttingmeasure.
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I believe that it is acost-cuttingmeasure.
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Clearly, that is acost-cuttingmeasure; the clause is designed to save money.
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This is acost-cuttingmeasureto save £600 million.
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As acost-cuttingmeasure, it would be excessive.
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This is acost-cuttingmeasureand that is the essential application of the phrase.
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It is also worth mentioning that the decision to remove general benefit entitlement from 16 and 17-year-olds was not acost-cuttingmeasure.
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We all know that the scheme is being introduced as a simple, straightforward, squalid littlecost-cuttingmeasure.
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Councillors state that this is not acost-cuttingmeasure, but is purely an attempt to ensure that fire resources across the county are most effectively deployed.
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It is partly acost-cuttingmeasure, but, above all, it aims to improve the quality of service to the public and the efficiency of the agencies.
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The amalgamation of the two existing brigades must not be undertaken as acost-cuttingmeasureif it means that existing capability is in any way to be impaired.
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Promotion to the rank of field marshal was generally stopped in 1995 as acost-cuttingmeasurebut is still made in some cases.
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The network canceled the pre-game show (as acost-cuttingmeasure) following the 2008 season.
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The last of these miniseries was printed in black and white as acost-cuttingmeasure; low sales led to the series being discontinued.
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Although it was surely done as acost-cuttingmeasure, being cheaper than hiring an orchestra or a pianist, it nevertheless is sampling by definition.
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The government retained overall ownership until 1984, when it privatized its operation as part of acost-cuttingmeasure.
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As acost-cuttingmeasure, some stations mixed several bloods in the same centrifuge, resulting in large-scale blood contamination.
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At that time the desire was mostly acost-cuttingmeasurein order to make the process cheaper in trying economic times.
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She characterized her departure as anti-climactic and not a protest resignation, a corporatecost-cuttingmeasureor a veiled firing.
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