I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
forward slash
slash a price (= reduce it by a very large amount )
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Many carpet stores have slashed prices to bring in customers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
budget
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His plans to slash defence budgets by £6 billion would cost 100,000 more their jobs.
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A month later he ordered another $ 1. 4 billion slashed from the military budget .
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The government will also slash the budgets of state enterprises by a tenth.
company
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The company has slashed the dividend, which is being paid out of reserves.
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The company has slashed prices to fend off competitors and pump up slackening demand.
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After announcing this decision the company slashed prices to sell stock.
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He sees companies such as Compaq slashing inventories and accepting lower profit margins to narrow the cost gap with direct sellers.
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In February, the company slashed 1, 000 jobs in an effort to cut $ 80 million in costs.
face
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She was there when John was slashed across the face with a butcher's knife.
government
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International investors continued to switch their money out of sterling because they expect the Government to slash interest rates.
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The government will also slash the budgets of state enterprises by a tenth.
job
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Marconi wants to slash 4,000 more jobs , on top of the 4,000 through voluntary redundancy since April.
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Boeing plans to slash 12, 000 jobs .
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Just before Christmas, the company said it would immediately slash 6, 000 jobs .
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In February, the company slashed 1, 000 jobs in an effort to cut $ 80 million in costs.
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Tchuruk said the company would have to realign operations in all its units, slashing several hundred jobs .
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The strikes began Dec. 26 to protest the sudden passage of a law slashing job security.
price
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But they still look for quality and are put off stores that repeatedly slash prices .
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Mitsubishi also seeks to cut production by 20 percent and pressure suppliers to slash prices by 15 percent by 2003.
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Last year Kraft was forced to slash prices when it began losing sales to own-label cheeses that were 45% cheaper.
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The company has slashed prices to fend off competitors and pump up slackening demand.
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As it slashed Marlboro's price , Wall Street wailed.
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To woo customers, carpet stores have slashed prices , which cut into the bottom line of carpet manufacturers.
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After announcing this decision the company slashed prices to sell stock.
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Even tiny firms of six men in dingy offices with low overheads were able to compete by slashing prices to the bone.
rate
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International investors continued to switch their money out of sterling because they expect the Government to slash interest rates .
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Two funds were frozen by the government; others declared bankruptcy or slashed their interest rates and stopped paying back principal.
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The 42-year-old millionaire would slash interest rates to three percent and set up a board of go-ahead businessmen to help industry.
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The Federal Reserve knows its history too and is doing just that, slashing interest rates .
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Dealers now hope the Chancellor will slash interest rates again in next week's autumn statement.
tax
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Recession is the culprit: it has slashed tax receipts and driven up the cost of unemployment benefits.
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Proposition 13 in 1978 slashed the property tax and reordered state and local government finance.
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Christie Todd Whitman had kept her campaign pledge to slash taxes .
throat
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He had been a young man, quite personable until some one slashed his throat .
wrist
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Her threshold for anger and frustration was low and she had once slashed her wrist .
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Rather than betray the others, Stockdale broke a window and slashed his wrists with a jagged shard of glass.
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She had made determined attempts at suicide by slashing her wrists several times.
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On Dec. 30, he attacked Heidi with a broken wine bottle, slashing her right wrist .
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Last December, he took a drugs overdose and in September slashed his wrists and groin with a smuggled razor blade.
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Mr Jamshidi has recently left hospital after slashing his wrists in his own suicide attempt.
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On other occasions he had taken a drugs overdose and slashed his wrists .
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In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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American car manufacturers have started slashing prices in an effort to stimulate sales.
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British Airways have slashed fares by over 50%.
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Come to our Summer Sale, where prices have been slashed by up to 75%.
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Congress has slashed the budget for programs to help poor families.
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Final Sale. All prices slashed. Everything must go!
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Public spending has been slashed over the past two years.
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She slashed her wrists with a razor blade.
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Someone had slashed the car's tires.
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Someone had slashed the tyres on Bayle's car.
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Sony has slashed the price of its new CD player, the D50.
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The painting had been slashed with a knife.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And aerobically fit skaters slash and glide along groomed tracks.
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As irrational as it sounds, many companies hire new workers and then turn around and slash their payrolls.
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His plans to slash defence budgets by £6 billion would cost 100,000 more their jobs.
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Last December, he took a drugs overdose and in September slashed his wrists and groin with a smuggled razor blade.
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Mr Jackson said Cardow had been injured and later his face had been slashed by friends of the dead man.
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Rather than betray the others, Stockdale broke a window and slashed his wrists with a jagged shard of glass.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Down the front of it there was a long slash .
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Every instinct tells us to run for cover: to withhold information, slash jobs and cut investment.
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Many of these cards were marked with a slash to show the killings had been carried out.
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There was a vertical slash in the canvas.