budget cuts
Fiscal tightening measures
Budget cuts are reductions in planned spending, typically by governments or organizations facing financial pressure.
The phrase often carries negative connotations—implying that valued programs or services will suffer: The budget cuts forced the library to reduce its hours.
Politicians may frame the same reductions as "savings" or "fiscal responsibility" depending on their position.
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- cutbacksReductions in spending
- reductionsActs of lessening
- layoffsMass job eliminations
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
furloughs · deficit reduction · red ink · retrenchment · spending caps · across the board · gutted · chopping block · trimming · bare-bones · slashing · contraction · belt-tightening · tighten the purse strings · fiscal discipline · cost-cutting · sequestration · savings
- money managementsaving, savings, expense tracking, cash flow, savings account
- business problemscash flow, hiring, staffing, payroll, expenses
- cutbackscutback, cutbacks, decrease, layoff, reduction
- school problemsdropout rates, overcrowding, school funding, bullying, poor attendance
- work problemslayoff, firing, low pay, burnout, deadline pressure
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
budget cutsfiscal stimulus
Government spending to boost economy
stimulus spending · deficit spending · economic stimulus · pump priming · quantitative easing
budget cutsinvestment
Deploying capital for returns
funding · endowment · reinvestment · hiring spree · expansion
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