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Word entry · 7 letters

cutback

Best crossword clue

"Budget reduction"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈkʌtbæk/Part of speech nounSorted abccktuStarts with CEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2U3T4B5A6C7K

Definitions

  1. a reduction in quantity or rate

Word origin

Deverbal from cut back.

Used in a sentence

  • Fifteen more proposals to reverse historical cutbacks in passenger services and the size of the rail network have secured development funding.
  • The cutback is one of the sport's three fundamental turns, along with the bottom turn and top turn. "It's the purest power move in the book," Australian surf journalist Nick Carroll wrote in 2000.
  • Lee Barnard swung at Chaplow's cutback and missed completely and then was just too far away to connect with Harding's flashing ball across the face of goal.

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