cutting waste
Minimizing excess output
Cutting waste refers to material removed or discarded during manufacturing, tailoring, or construction—the scraps left over when shapes are cut from larger pieces: The factory recycles its cutting waste into insulation.
The phrase also describes efforts to reduce inefficiency or unnecessary spending: The new director focused on cutting waste from the budget.
- trimmingCutting away excess
- efficiencyProductive without waste
- leanLacking fat; incline
- belt tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
- reductionMaking something smaller
scraps · food scraps · scrap metal · eliminate · streamline · recycling · frugal · conserve · minimize · carbon footprint · surplus · leftover · dispose · shavings · offcuts · composting · pruning · slashing
- textile scrapsfabric scraps, lint, scraps, cuttings, clippings
cutting wastesquandering
Reckless depletion of resources
wasting · wastefulness · profligacy · extravagance · throwing money away
cutting wasteplanned obsolescence
Deliberately shortened product lifespan
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