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Cutback   Listen
noun
cutback  n.  
1.
A reduction in quantity or rate; a reduction in the amount of an activity or the funding for an activity; as, cutbacks in government research funding increased unemployment among scientists; the recession caused a cutback in auto production.
2.
A return to an earlier scene or story line in a novel, movie, etc.
3.
(Sports) A sudden switching of directions of a running football player, a surfboarder, etc.





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"Cutback" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the enlisted strength.[1-3] But the employment of Negroes in the Navy was abruptly curtailed after 1900. Paralleling the rise of Jim Crow and legalized segregation (p. 005) in much of America was the cutback in the number of black sailors, who by 1909 were mostly in the galley and the engine room. In contrast to their high percentage of the ranks in the Civil War and Spanish-American War, only 6,750 black sailors, including twenty-four women reservists (yeomanettes), served in World War I; they constituted ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.


Words linked to "Cutback" :   decrease, cut back, step-down, diminution


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