cost cuts
Spending decrease measures
Cost cuts are reductions in spending, typically by businesses or governments seeking to improve finances or efficiency.
The phrase often appears in news about layoffs, budget trimming, or organizational restructuring: The company announced cost cuts affecting three thousand workers.
Cost-cutting as an adjective describes measures taken to reduce expenses: cost-cutting initiatives.
- budgetPlan for spending
- layoffsMass job eliminations
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- headcount reductionCutting employee numbers
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
slashing · slash and burn · trimming · restructuring · savings · efficiency · redundancy · lean · bare bones · squeeze · belt-tightening · cutbacks · reductions · across the board · overhead · expenses · streamlining · workforce
- reducingshrinking, lessening, diminishing, decreasing, scaling back
- Government Reformbudget reform, fiscal reform, government reform, policy reform, regulatory reform
- budgetingbudget, budgets, budget app, budget template, budget allocation
- transport financepassenger fares, pricing strategy, baggage fees, landing fees, airport fees
cost cutsinvestment
Deploying capital for returns
capital investment · spending spree · capital expenditure · spending sprees · splurging
cost cutsexpansion
Increase in scope
business expansion · scaling up · market expansion · strategic investment · ramping up
cost, costs, costing, costed, costly, costlier, costliest, costliness, cut