VERB
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cut down on; make a reduction in
reduce your daily fat intake
The employer wants to cut back health benefits
How To Use trim back In A Sentence
- Trim back fuchsias brought in from the garden and pot them up in a peat and sand mixture.
- Take a look at what you're spending, and if there's more cash going out than coming in, trim back.
- Some of it will be attached to green plants - this is a good time, for instance, to trim back heaths that have been blooming through the winter.
- In February, you must trim back to a fat bud.
- I know that we've got to keep the pressure on the Chinese government to trim back the amount of army-owned industry.
- It will not eliminate the need to trim back unrealistic promises to pensioners; no rich country can simply grow its way out of looming pension and health-care commitments.
- The Supreme Court in recent years has taken steps to trim back the ability of prisoners to file successive habeas petitions.
- I think there raises an interesting question; if it becomes profitable to unnecessarily trim back ground cover for fuel generation, might China face a wave of wide-spread top-soil erosion?
- Trim back especially large holdings in any one stock.
- The key is not to trim out all the lattes you drink, but instead trim back a few lattes a month.