Cutback

Quick meaning: Cutback is a noun meaning A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.

Meaning

A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.

More Meanings

1. (surfing) Maneuver where the surfer turns and surfs back towards where the wave is breaking.
2. (roofing) Solvent-thinned bitumen used in cold process roofing adhesives, cements and coatings.
3. (soccer) An offensive pass played into a position further from the attacking goal line.
4. An inversion feature of a rollercoaster, similar to a corkscrew but with the second half reversed.

Example Sentences

Fifteen more proposals to reverse historical cutbacks in passenger services and the size of the rail network have secured development funding.

Lee Barnard swung at Chaplow's cutback and missed completely and then was just too far away to connect with Harding's flashing ball across the face of goal.

Before the interval an Alibade strike ricocheted off the back of Bright after Ifeoma Onumonu’s cutback. Then in added time Uchenna Kanu smacked a header off the top of the bar.

The cutback is one of the sport's three fundamental turns, along with the bottom turn and top turn. "It's the purest power move in the book," Australian surf journalist Nick Carroll wrote in 2000.

Word Forms

• cutbacks

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include downsizing, reduced, decrease, reduction, reducing, decline.

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