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Noun cut back has 1 sense
- cutback - a reduction in quantity or rate
--1 is a kind of decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down
--1 has particulars: service cutback
Verb cut back has 4 senses
- cut back, flash back - return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story"
--1 is one way to return, go back, get back, come back
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
--2 is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
--3 is one way to thin out
Sample sentence:
They cut back the trees
- restrict, curtail, curb, cut back - place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school"
--4 is one way to limit, circumscribe, confine
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
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