cost-saving measure

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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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(Definition ofmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Presumably this approach is acost-savingmeasureof the publishers.
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He believes that this is acost-savingmeasure.
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It was also said that our ships had been told to travel slowly as acost-savingmeasure.
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The work load in the lower courts is not expected to decline, so it is not acost-savingmeasure.
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Furthermore, we believe that such provision, far from increasing costs, could well be the single greatestcost-savingmeasurethat could be taken.
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We believe that this could well be the single greatestcost-savingmeasurethat could be taken.
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Indeed, it is acost-savingmeasure, as has been said.
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I understand that there has already been some reduction in use of disinfectants in favour of neutral detergents, as a matter of professional practice rather than as acost-savingmeasure.
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Therefore, this is not acost-savingmeasure.
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As acost-savingmeasurefrom the early days of the company, sales were handled via direct mail and telemarketing.
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Increasing compliance through a registry with preventive measures like children vaccination or colonoscopy screening can actually be acost-savingmeasure.
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All were built according to the standardized pillar-trispan design, which was widely used in the 1960s as acost-savingmeasure.
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The park came into existence as acost-savingmeasureto avoid the expense of extending the street grid across difficult terrain.
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Also, standard brakes could be optioned on the turbo as acost-savingmeasure.
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At the end of the 2009 school year, the school was closed as acost-savingmeasure.
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The base was closed in 1975 as acost-savingmeasure.
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In the 1990s it was turned into a chain with 29 locations, but by 2005 all had been closed as acost-savingmeasure.
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