Scaleback

Scale´back`


n.1.(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidæ, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chætopoda.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Moreover, the EU has urged Iran to reverse scaleback from nuclear deal.
This was the reason it suspended new and additional charter flights to Kalibo and Boracay, and ordered scheduled carriers to review their flight numbers for a possible scaleback.
understands most of the cuts will be associated to the scaleback of its Scottish infrastructure construction division.
Summary: Job cuts and scaleback of employment allowances leads to dip in disposable incomes
They arise from a potential scaleback in investment from the impact of the oil price decline and spillovers from weaker economic conditions in Euro Area trading partners.
"While there is a scaleback in the overall budgets or a flattening of budgets, there is a recognition that training is an essential component to have a force that is ready to fight."
Liverpool Liberal Democrat councillor Richard Kemp called the scaleback a "disgrace" and raised traders' frustrations about the size of the newly-relocated Greatie market, also redeveloped by St Modwen.
"It was inevitable as a result of the crash and the recapitalisation of banks and deleveraging that followed, that there'd be this type of scaleback."
Instead, Dougan, who has long defended the unit he used to head from calls for a dramatic scaleback, announced a raft of measures that confirm his desire to keep Credit Suisse at the top table of investment banking.