Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive and intransitive with '''on''' English) To reduce the amount of (something). 2 (context intransitive with '''on''' English) To reduce spending. 3 (context intransitive with '''on''' English) To reduce consumption.
WordNet
v. return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story" [syn: flash back]
cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" [syn: reduce, cut down, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down]
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune]
place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school" [syn: restrict, curtail, curb]
Usage examples of "cut back".
But if we had not cut back our lightning speed at the right moment and at the predetermined rate, we’.
By similar reasoning, we know that the canon of the Colorado is a very old region, though the precipitateness of its banks is due to the absence of rain, for a local water-supply would cut back the banks, having most effect where they were steepest, since at those points it would move with the greatest speed.
It entrenched and extended the existing system in which Latin Americans are made to produce crops for export and to cut back on subsistence crops like corn and beans grown for local consumption.
As the mood struck him, he cut back to earlier events of the past year, then moved forward again to the present.
So you tell them to cut back consumption -- they have a very low standard of living, considering their wealth -- work hard, etc.
Certainly, the Reagan administration, having drastically cut back federal welfare funding, did little enough for America's poorest.
If we take out the remaining military powers on our frontiers, we can probably cut back to something more like a peace-keeping posture of our own.
It wound upward through vineyards whose pruning had been left half-finished, some vinestocks cut back to their gnarled winter shapes and some with the season's growth still showing in long bare finger-shoots.
The metal hull groaned and creaked, and Spock cut back the engines again.
On the other hand, if he cut back into the Canyon of the Hohokam on a hunch and was wrong—.
That light, whatever it might be, cut back and forth with the precision of a weapon designed to make sure nothing alive remained afloat on the surface it now lashed.
Augustine grass of her well-trimmed lawn, which was kept by one of the men from Satin, who still charged only twenty dollars, though he'd cut back on his workload and charged everyone else double that.
They are that if you have a high level of inflation and the currency isn't stable and various other economic indicators aren't satisfied, then you impose extreme forms of austerity: balance the budget, cut back services, control the currency, etc.
You know how the Council's cut back the Protector's constitutional authority over the last century.
The view cut back to the Fox crew, who were looking pretty stunned.