n. 削减，减少；裁员（cutback 的复数）
1.The hospital is freezing staff appointments as part of its cutbacks.
这家医院冻结员工职位作为削减开支的一部分。
2.Cutbacks on highway construction will slow that trend but not reverse it.
公路建设的减少降低了这种趋势但并没有扭转它。
3.If your company has had layoffs or cutbacks, ask what you can do to fill the gaps.
如果公司之前曾有过裁员或精简，问问你可以做些什么来填补空缺。
4.Cutbacks by advertisers, especially on Web banners, hurt Yahoo's revenue, which also dropped for the first time in seven years.
由于广告特别是网络横幅广告业务的削减，雅虎的季度营收在七年来首次下滑。
5.However, Ireland's largest teaching union, the INTO, said schools across the state were reeling from the funding cutbacks.
然而，爱尔兰最大的教师联盟(INTO)说，全国各所学校都遇到资金削减问题。
6.The cutbacks have some administrators stumped.
经费削减难住了一些管理人员。
7.Its cutbacks in spending since then have fallen more heavily on foreign than on domestic production.
之后它在消费上的削减比起国内生产的削减，更多落在外国的花费上。
8.Reorganisation and cutbacks have meant that the institutions with which I have been working are not taking on as many agency staff as they were.
重组和裁员就意味着那些我曾经工作的机构不会像之前那些需要那么多的雇员。