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cutback
[kuht-bak]
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.
cutback
/ ˈʌˌæ /
noun
a decrease or reduction
another word (esp US) for flashback
verb
(tr) to shorten by cutting off the end; prune
to reduce or make a reduction (in)
(intr) (in films) to show an event that took place earlier in the narrative; flash back
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cutback1
Example Sentences
Discovery’s movie and TV production studios and streaming operation, soon to go back to its earlier name, HBO Max, will not be hit by the cutbacks.
The cutbacks come after Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger acknowledged to Wall Street that Disney had been pumping out too many shows and movies to compete against Netflix.
Course cutbacks or closure announcements have also followed one after the other this year, from the University of East Anglia to Sheffield, Durham, Bournemouth and many more.
The latest cutbacks brought the total number of layoffs announced by the company in the past year to about 20,000, or 15% of its workforce.
The latest cutbacks come against a bleak financial backdrop, with United losing more than £370m over the past five years.
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