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25 January
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What is the difference between cut out and eliminate ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between cut out and eliminate ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- English (US)
Eliminate is more formal, but they can mean the same thing
The business owner had to eliminate 3 staff positions due to financial hardship caused by the lack of business.
The business owner had to cut 3 staff positions due to financial hardship caused by the lack of business.
The legislative assistant worked to find $300,000 to eliminate from the budget proposal.
The legislative assistant worked to cut $300,000 out of the budget proposal.
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- Spanish (Spain)
@Maura_J where the word out here
The business owner had to cut 3 staff positions due to financial hardship caused by the lack of business.
The business owner had to cut 3 staff positions due to financial hardship caused by the lack of business.
- English (US)
In this sentence cut, cut out and eliminate mean the same thing. Cut out is awkward in the sentence, so you would just say cut.
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- Spanish (Spain)
- English (US)
Financial hardship means business is not making enough money to pay bills and employees.
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- Spanish (Spain)
@Maura_J so the word hardship should be alongside with financial
- English (US)
In this sentence, yes. Hardship means suffering or lacking the basic needs to live. In this case, the business doesn’t make enough money to survive.
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- Spanish (Spain)
@Maura_J so hardship by itself has another meaning?
- English (US)
Yes. Hardship used by itself means great difficulty (gran dificultad)
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- Spanish (Spain)
@Maura_J can u show mr an example sentence with just hardship
- English (US)
@HDGD Many families have endured hardship because they lost their jobs during the pandemic.
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