Meanings of curtail spending in English

Hewlett-Packard is suffering as some consumers shun personal computers and businesses curtail spending.

Cutbacks have been planned at hospitals across the State in a bid to curtail spending.

Businesses and households that over-extend during booms are forced to curtail spending sharply when conditions suddenly change.

The oil and gas industry has been pressured by investors to curtail spending on investments and boost shareholder returns.

Raimondo helped the state reach a critical 2011 deal to curtail spending on pensions, which lost her some union support.

U.S. sports leagues and groups have been hurt by the recession, which led consumers and corporate backers to curtail spending.

Baseball, like most U.S. sports leagues, has been hurt by the weak economy that led consumers and companies to curtail spending.

Restaurant operators have been battling sluggish demand as customers curtail spending due to the slow pace of economic recovery in the United States.

Large employers, instead of investing to accelerate growth, may curtail spending to boost profits in markets that are holding up relatively well, he said.

Talbots, which mainly caters to women over 35, has been cutting staff and streamlining operations for the past year as consumers continue to curtail spending.

The retailing sector has been a major casualty of the U.S. recession, as consumers have sharply curtailed spending.

Still, huge criticism centres on the damaging repercussions of prolonged fiscal retrenchment as governments across the euro zone curtailed spending and increased taxes.

The Fed's Beige Book report said economic activity weakened across the United States in September as businesses revised capital investments and consumers curtailed spending.

This has raised fears about curtailed spending on projects, which would ultimately hit the oilfield services firms and drillers that help companies extract hydrocarbons.

In addition to financial institutions, retailers have had declines in sales as consumers curtailed spending and the prices of food and other essentials rose.