cut back
phrasal verb with cut verb uk
/kʌt/ us
/kʌt/ present participle cutting | past tense and past participle cut
B2
to spend less, do less, or use less of something:
- balance
- budget
- budget something for something
- budgetary
- couponing
- cut costs
- defund
- draw/pull in your horns idiom
- economy
- economy drive
- on a shoestring idiom
- pinch
- put/lay something on/to one side idiom
- save (something) up phrasal verb
- save money
- save on something phrasal verb
- scrimp
- skimp
- tighten your belt idiom