cutback
[ kuht-bak ]
/ ˈkʌtˌbæk /
noun
a reduction in rate, quantity, etc.: a cutback in production.
a return in the course of a story, motion picture, etc., to earlier events.
Football.
a play in which the ball-carrier abruptly reverses direction, especially by starting to make an end run and then turning suddenly to run toward the middle of the line.
a maneuver in surfing of heading the surfboard back toward a wave's crest.
Origin of cutback
First recorded in 1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase
cut back
Words nearby cutback
cutaneous tuberculosis,
cutaneous vasculitis,
cutaneous vein,
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cutaway dive,
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cutcherry,
cutdown,
cute
Example sentences from the Web for cutback
I'm not sure how some lower-end retail workers are going to survive the cutback.
In the throes of cutback after cutback, the content being presented is suffering.
I always thought S'Bucks was a ripoff anyway, so that's a cutback that I really don't mind at all.
British Dictionary definitions for cutback
cutback
/ (ˈkʌtˌbæk) /
noun
a decrease or reduction
another word (esp US) for flashback
verb cut back (adverb)
(tr)
to shorten by cutting off the end; prune
(when intr, foll by on)
to reduce or make a reduction (in)
(intr) mainly US
(in films) to show an event that took place earlier in the narrative; flash back