| 单词 | cutback |
| 释义 | cutback[ kuht-bak ] / ˈkʌtˌbæk / SEE SYNONYMS FOR cutback ON THESAURUS.COM nouna reduction in rate, quantity, etc.: a cutback in production. a return in the course of a story, motion picture, etc., to earlier events. Football. a play in which the ball-carrier abruptly reverses direction, especially by starting to make an end run and then turning suddenly to run toward the middle of the line. a maneuver in surfing of heading the surfboard back toward a wave's crest. Origin of cutbackFirst recorded in 1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase cut back Words nearby cutbackcutaneous vasculitis, cutaneous vein, cutaway, cutaway dive, cut a wide swath, cutback, cutbank, cut both ways, cut capers, cut-card work, cutch Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cutback
British Dictionary definitions for cutbackcutback / (ˈkʌtˌbæk) / nouna decrease or reduction another word (esp US) for flashback verb cut back (adverb)(tr) to shorten by cutting off the end; prune (when intr, foll by on) to reduce or make a reduction (in) (intr) mainly US (in films) to show an event that took place earlier in the narrative; flash back Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with cutbackcut back Shorten by cutting, prune, as in It's time we cut back these bushes. [1860s] Reduce, decrease, as in They are going to cut back defense spending, or We have to cut back production. [c. 1940] Also see cut to the bone. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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