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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cutback
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
severe
▪ For the past number of years there have been severe cutbacks in the housing budget.
sharp
▪ If anything the situation is worse, with sharp cutbacks in government investments in education, infrastructure, and research.
▪ As that buildup occurred, the United States would have plenty of time to rebuild its military establishment after any sharp cutbacks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although employment growth has been steady since the recession, government cutbacks will likely curb it.
▪ Armed forces cutbacks in the West have had an effect, too.
▪ If anything the situation is worse, with sharp cutbacks in government investments in education, infrastructure, and research.
▪ In this era of funding cutbacks and academic brain drains, one must suspend preconceptions.
▪ Partners' preferences can also make it more difficult to control household fuel consumption and to effect cutbacks in personal consumption.
▪ With the program cutbacks, the arsenal ship was renamed the maritime fire support demonstrator.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cutback

cutback \cutback\ n.

  1. a reduction in quantity or rate; a reduction in the amount of an activity or the funding for an activity; as, cutbacks in government research funding increased unemployment among scientists; the recession caused a cutback in auto production.

  2. a return to an earlier scene or story line in a novel, movie, etc.

  3. (Sports) a sudden switching of directions of a running football player, a surfboarder, etc.

Wiktionary
cutback

n. 1 A reduction in an existing program of some sort. 2 (context surfing English) Maneuver where the surfer turns and surfs back towards where the wave is breaking. 3 (context roofing English) Solvent-thinned bitumen used in cold process roofing adhesives, cements and coatings. 4 (context soccer English) An offensive pass played into a position further from the attacking goal line.

WordNet
cutback

n. a reduction in quantity or rate

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Usage examples of "cutback".

With everybody going over to the Birth Center, and with cutbacks in dietary and transportation, those of us left are having do their jobs and work this unit, antepartum, and sometimes and D.

Charlie had been pelted from the pulpit over fetal tissue, Social Security cutbacks, voluntary life-termination, biosynthetic research, and the failure of the public schools to include God in the curriculum.

There were some consolidations in the publishing industry, some cutbacks in paperbacks, but they were offset by an extraordinary increase in the number of trade paperback titles.

Maybe it was cutbacks killing off his soldiers that drove him to drink.

You read about that all the time in the Toronto Star, especially since Harris’s cutbacks to the health-care system had begun: Canadians going to the States for medical treatment.

Cutbacks and belt tightening has been ordered all through the services.

Here, little, sulky and voluptuous, Rachel would gee and haw this MG around Route 17's bloodthirsty curves and cutbacks, sashaying its arrogant butt past hay wagons, growling semis, old Ford roadsters filled to capacity with crewcut, undergraduate gnomes.

But there had been a cutback in permits when the Limiters began fulminating opposition.

Many economists consider the major factor in the Bush recession to be the cutback in military procurement -- orders placed with factories, which have not only accounted for a healthy segment of the output of goods and services but have had a substantial multiplier effect, creating jobs in companies that produce consumer goods for the relatively high-paid workers in companies that are profitable thanks to the taxpayer subsidy.

Among them was an uproar caused by numerous firings of staff members, massive and - his critics said - arbitrary budgetary cutbacks and intense scru­tiny of the network's news programs and their con­tent.

After the rebellions were put down, the US turned to a program of military aid and training coupled with a cutback of economic aid, a classic mode of pre-coup planning, followed in Chile a few years later, and attempted in Iran with the dispatch of arms via Israel from shortly after the Khomeini takeover -- one of the many crucial elements of the Iran-contra affair suppressed in the subsequent cover-up.