Examples of belt-tightening in a Sentence
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Other belt-tightening measures include eliminating corporate first- and business-class travel, as well as pausing spending on outside consultants, charitable contributions, and advertising and marketing.
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Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2024
Collectively, these banks cut over 5,000 jobs as part of belt-tightening measures, PYMNTS reported.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Amid a difficult stretch for L.A.’s restaurant industry, even the choice of which pizza box to use is something belt-tightening proprietors consider.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
But though the industry is in a belt-tightening phase, no one is predicting the demise of the art form altogether.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
With the new 10% belt-tightening order, that means the administration must figure out a way to trim that price tag by about $586 million.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024
The studio's belt-tightening — squeezing the budget down to $3.5 million due to Romero's unwavering artistic stance — left the director to later lament the divergence from his original ambitions.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
Google has been on a belt-tightening, price-raising mission for about a year now, and part of that has involved across-the-board subscription price increases.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2023
Shares in Spotify jumped more than 11% when the New York Stock Exchange opened Monday, a familiar reaction to headcount reductions, with investors seeing belt-tightening as a good sign for reining in unnecessary staffing costs.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 6 Dec. 2023
Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2024
Collectively, these banks cut over 5,000 jobs as part of belt-tightening measures, PYMNTS reported.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
Amid a difficult stretch for L.A.’s restaurant industry, even the choice of which pizza box to use is something belt-tightening proprietors consider.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
But though the industry is in a belt-tightening phase, no one is predicting the demise of the art form altogether.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
With the new 10% belt-tightening order, that means the administration must figure out a way to trim that price tag by about $586 million.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024
The studio's belt-tightening — squeezing the budget down to $3.5 million due to Romero's unwavering artistic stance — left the director to later lament the divergence from his original ambitions.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
Google has been on a belt-tightening, price-raising mission for about a year now, and part of that has involved across-the-board subscription price increases.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2023
Shares in Spotify jumped more than 11% when the New York Stock Exchange opened Monday, a familiar reaction to headcount reductions, with investors seeing belt-tightening as a good sign for reining in unnecessary staffing costs.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 6 Dec. 2023
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“Belt-tightening.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/belt-tightening. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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