net reduction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnetandreduction
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net
adjective[before or after noun]
uk/net/us/net/
left when there is nothing else to be ...
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reduction
noun
uk/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən/us/rɪˈdʌk.ʃən/
the act of making something, or of something becoming, smaller in size, amount, degree, ...
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(Definition ofnetandreductionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The firm with 250 employees would choose to offer a 401(k) and get anetreductionin total compensation expense of over $10,000.
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Early on, beneficial inlinings lead to further transformations with anetreductionin code size.
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They also found both the compensatory effect in the first year after a stillbirth and thenetreductionin fertility over 4 years.
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This coefficient will be negative if outsourcing improves efficiency, that is if it leads to anetreductionof costs.
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After allowing for recruitment there was anetreductionin the labour force of about 25,000.
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Patient deaths is one of the factors in thisnetreductionbut this element is not separately identified in the information held centrally.
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It is intended to be anetreduction.
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There are minor variations which make thenetreduction£495,000.
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We are aiming for a significantnetreductionin the population over the next few months.
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This is anetreductionof 1,200 men on the current year.
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In the same period there were 4,636 recruits giving anetreductionof 7,016 men.
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This did mean a reduction in funding of £21 million for departments rated 4 and anetreductionof £4.3 million for departments rated 3a and 3b.
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It assisted in producing more machinery, but only in so far as we made anetreduction.
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Approximately 13,000 workers were discharged as redundant from manufacturing industries but thenetreduction in the numbers employed in these industries was about 4,000.
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Thenetreductionis, therefore, £125 and not the figure he gave, which was many times higher.
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That is anetreductionin income of 2p.
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The result has been anetreductionin excise duty revenues compared with previous years.
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When you deduct that from your £43,500,000, yournetreductionamounts only to £8,500,000.
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There will be anetreductionin the support for dairy.
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Preliminary estimates suggest that thenetreductionin income related benefits may be as small as £20 million—only a fraction of the potential costs.
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