Synonym: bring down, clip, crop, curb, curtail, cut, cut down, dress, flash back, lop, prune, reduce, restrict, snip, trim, trim back, trim down. Similar words: set back, back, back up, back of, back on, back away, call back, pay back. Meaning: v. 1. return in time 2. cut down on; make a reduction in 3. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of 4. place restrictions on.
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(91) Then they reduced humidity levels, cut back on lighting and dropped the temperatures from 75 degrees to about 70.
(92) Cut out crowded or crossing branches from the bush centre, and cut back side shoots to two buds from their base.
(93) Firms would find their inventories involuntarily building up and so would cut back production thereby reducing national income.
(94) The crevices where the spurs were cut back each year were particularly attractive hiding places for mealy bugs.
(95) Meanwhile, industrialised nations will have to cut back fast.
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(96) Ford decided to cut back drastically.
(97) Spendthrift governments were forced to cut back.
(98) Rose bushes shoot out again after being cut back.
(99) Try to cut back on work time.
(100) You have to cut back your trees after fruiting.
(101) In fact the shrub had barely been cut back at all.
(102) Rising gasoline prices have already led Jayme Webb, an office manager at a recycling center in Sioux City, Iowa, and her husband, Ken, who works at Wal-Mart, to cut back on spending.
(103) The escapee ran quickly northward and cut back to the original place.
(104) First, cut back on your actual hours, but increase the intensity of your focus, so those hours will be more productive.
(105) "When the crisis hit, U.S. banks cut back on dollar credit lines to foreign borrowers," says David Hu of the International Investment Group.
(106) If you have cut back significantly on your variable expenses and still can not meet your fixed expenses you will need to find ways to change your fixed expenses.
(107) Financial pressures impel the firm to cut back on spending.
(108) If your expenses exceed your income, you'll need to cut back on nonessential items.
(109) Cut back to fight, Heavy now has the Scout in a headlock. Cuts back to Scout.
(110) If the above suggestions do not entice your persistent night nurser to cut back, yet you still feel you must encourage him to do so, try another sleeping arrangement.
(111) Second run to cut back on many wood sawing wood sticks, and, as to a stop.
(112) Plastic wading pools, both hard and soft, are often made of PVC, so cut back on toxic chemicals-and water use-by visiting a local swimming or wading pool instead.
(113) That's leading commercial banks to cut back on lending and hoard cash in order to shore up their balance sheets and improve their financial picture going into the next fiscal year.
(114) Consumers may cut back on spending now that the main rate of VAT (value-added tax) has returned to 17.5% after 13 months at 15% to counter the recession.
(115) Cut back on caffeine and do not smoke. Be careful about using decongestants that contain pseudoephedrine or phenylephrine.
(116) Dear C.C.: "The idea that companies cut back on hiring in the summer is a myth, " says Patty Coffey, a partner at staffing firm Winter Wyman.
(117) Since 1980 the subsidies have been gradually cut back by reducing the volume of real credit.
(118) At the same time, they cut back slightly more on bonds -- to 34.9 percent of a portfolio compared with April's 35.5 percent and put money into cash. Cash holdings rose to 5.1 percent from 4.7 percent.
(119) Saddam at that time was pushing oil exporting countries to raise prices and cut back production.
(120) Consumers have cut back sharply on food spending, shunning restaurants, opting for generic products over brand names, trading in lattes for home-brewed coffee and shopping for bargains.
More similar words: set back, back, back up, back of, back on, back away, call back, pay back, hold back, give back, go back to, feedback, draw back, backyard, go back on, keep back, look back, bring back, fall back on, background, double back, back and forth, date back to, quarterback, basketball, cut, cute, cut off, cut in, cut out.