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slashed

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for slashed.

Editorial note

The problem is that the reforms already made, slashed a huge chunk of the household's income while not giving anything back (not even hope!) in return.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Having been slashed, cut or rent.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of slashed gathered in one view.

adjective

Having been slashed, cut or rent.

adjective

Marked with a slash.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for slashed.

Example sentences

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The problem is that the reforms already made, slashed a huge chunk of the household's income while not giving anything back (not even hope!) in return.

2

An auto-car may arrive with dog droppings, vomit, trash in the back seat with slashed upholstery and condom wrappers.

3

It should be a slashed zero, but that does not have a unicode codepoint and the combining version renders poorly.

4

Police who tried restore order had their tires slashed and marbles thrown under their horses.

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And given that Syriza has, in fact, slashed pensions and raised the retirement age, they are clearly willing to do that.

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Then the Greek army had the not so brilliant idea to march forward to the inner Turkey, and they got slashed.

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You would not be happy if CO2 emission was slashed in half in one go?

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At the end of the day, we currently borrow £84 billion anyway, so at worst I've slashed the deficit!

9

Even moderate (800-900 e/mo) pensions and wages have been slashed, collective bargaining abolished, lots of small/medium businesses have gone belly up along with their employees.

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You can see how jobs are easily slashed, or moved overseas...

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And a few months later, it got slashed even further.

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Now in the plenary, after sufficient backlash, socialists and some liberals have changed their opinion, thus an amendment introduced in a committee was slashed in three plenary.

Quote examples

1

You could definitely say "innovative", or "vastly improved" because you have slashed the costs by 90% which is amazing.

2

The sanitation budget was constantly being slashed, because Quality Assurance as a department doesn't bring in a profit (that they can see), whereas hordes of "process engineers" would come in and rearrange boxes and claim that they have just eliminated 10 steps out of the workflow and calculate this to be saving $92/day.

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The only one who ever took a "get out of jail free card" in Europe was Germany, who's national debt and war reccuperation payments were slashed over 60% (including war reccuperations to Greece, for destroying infrastructure and leading to the death of 700.000 people, on top of getting a forced loan from the Greek state while it was occupied they never repaid).

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According to the "Financial Times": "main pensions have been slashed 44 to 48 percent since 2010, reducing the average pension to 700 euros a month … About 45 percent of Greek pensioners receive less than 665 euros monthly — below the official poverty threshold." > All of these facts together give the impression that Greece isn't committed to doing the right thing.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use slashed in a sentence?

The problem is that the reforms already made, slashed a huge chunk of the household's income while not giving anything back (not even hope!) in return.

What does slashed mean?

Having been slashed, cut or rent.

What part of speech is slashed?

slashed is commonly used as adjective.