budget cut

1. 1.

   the act of reducing budgeted expenditures

   Broadercut

Questions about budget cut

What does budget cut mean?

budget cut means "the act of reducing budgeted expenditures".

Is budget cut a common word?

budget cut is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.