program cuts
Funding gets reduced
Program cuts are reductions or eliminations of funding for specific initiatives, services, or organizational activities.
The term appears most often in government and institutional contexts: The budget proposal includes program cuts to housing assistance, Program cuts forced the university to eliminate several departments.
Unlike across-the-board cuts, program cuts target particular activities while leaving others intact.
- budgetPlan for spending
- tight budgetSeverely limited funds
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- slashAngled line or swipe
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
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- cutbackscutback, cutbacks, decrease, layoff, reduction
- austerityausterity measures, fiscal austerity, deficit reduction, belt tightening, fiscal discipline
- Government Reformbudget reform, fiscal reform, government reform, policy reform, regulatory reform
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