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budget cut

n. the act of reducing budgeted expenditures

Usage examples of "budget cut".

I've been requesting additional backup for months, but all that came down the line were orders to make better use of my resources and a 10 percent budget cut.

If only the great state of New Hampshire hadn't let the gifted-child program go down the drain in a budget cut.

After all, here is a man who has spent his entire career foretelling the Fall of the Empire and all he can really point to are a few burned-out bulbs in the dome, an occasional glitch in public transport, a budget cut here or there -nothing very dramatic.

After all, here is a man who has spent his entire career foretelling the Fall of the Empire and all he can really point to are a few burned-out bulbs in the dome, an occasional glitch in public transport, a budget cut here or there --nothing very dramatic.

After all, here is a man who has spent his entire career foretelling the Fall of the Empire and all he can really point to are a few burned-out bulbs in the dome, an occasional glitch in public transport, a budget cut here or there--nothing very dramatic.

And his almost magically clueless parents would never find out in a million years, but the nature trail had disappeared when a budget cut had let the banks of the Kinninnick revert to a secretive brushy wasteland lately popular, according to the teenage bush telegraph, as a pickup bazaar for gay men.

Another serious budget cut, though, and this place will be a tea room-slash-gifte shoppe.