Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Increased thrift and frugality; a reduction in spending.
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- noun informal A
reduction inexpenditure as a result offinancial restrictions
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Examples
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Ryan is talking about spending caps and long-term belt-tightening for the Medicare and Medicaid health programs.
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WASHINGTON -- The budget deal agreed to by White House and congressional negotiators Friday night may be built upon the notion of belt-tightening and austerity....
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The government's junior party, the populist far-right Loas, broke ranks on Friday, refusing to support the belt-tightening.
Greek protesters fight with police as parliament agrees cuts deal 2012
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Somehow I was under the impression that tough times call for more belt-tightening measures, even when it comes to visual displays.
Glen Helfand: Extreme Holiday Edition: Even in Tough Times, the Wattage Goes Up Glen Helfand 2011
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Tensions over Europe's austerity drive bubbled to the surface across the Continent as protesters hit the streets from Brussels to Madrid and a visiting U.S. official urged Europeans to tread carefully on fiscal belt-tightening.
European Austerity Fuels Tensions Jonathan House 2010
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He spent £3,500 on cabs in 2010, which constituted belt-tightening.
Hugh Muir's diary 2012
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Somehow I was under the impression that tough times call for more belt-tightening measures, even when it comes to visual displays.
Glen Helfand: Extreme Holiday Edition: Even in Tough Times, the Wattage Goes Up Glen Helfand 2011
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Somehow I was under the impression that tough times call for more belt-tightening measures, even when it comes to visual displays.
Glen Helfand: Extreme Holiday Edition: Even in Tough Times, the Wattage Goes Up Glen Helfand 2011
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In a letter to the Super Committee, Congressman Howard Berman D-CA, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote, In this period of belt-tightening and economic uncertainty, some seem to think that foreign assistance is a luxury we can no longer afford.
Regan Hofmann: How President Obama Makes Love, Not War, by Pledging to End AIDS Regan Hofmann 2011
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• More evidence that the government remains oblivious to the consequences of belt-tightening.
Hugh Muir's diary 2012
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