cost cutting

1. 1.

   the act of cutting costs

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Questions about cost cutting

What does cost cutting mean?

cost cutting means "the act of cutting costs".

Is cost cutting a common word?

cost cutting 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.