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削減 (さくげん): cut, reduction — Japanese vocabulary

削減 is read さくげん and means "cut, reduction". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

削減

Reading
さくげん · sakugen
Translation
cut, reduction
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
さくげんが

Example

彼女は支出を徐々に削減した。

かのじょはししゅつをじょじょにさくげんした。

She pared down her expenditures.

Kanji in this word

  • 削 — Plane, Sharpen, Whittle
  • 減 — decrease

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