Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with slash in American Collocation
slash
verb
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
US
/slæʃ/
dramatically
drastically
in half
In the next few years interest rates were slashed dramatically.
costs or charges
bills
charges
costs
fares
prices
tariffs
taxes
wages
Unless public spending was slashed, taxes would have to rise.
spending
budget
expenditure
funding
spending
Achieving a low tax economy isn’t about slashing state spending.
rate
rate
The bank has slashed the interst rate on personal loans.
Hotels can often fill their empty beds by slashing the room rates.
jobs
jobs
There are plans to slash 30,000 fishing jobs across the European Union.
in betting
the odds
William Hill has slashed the odds for snow in Glasgow from 7–4 to 8–11.
crime
crime
Mayor Giuliani slashed crime in New York, at one time the crime capital of the US.
substances that go into the air
emissions
A further regulation on fuel efficiency could easily slash carbon emmisions from vehicles by as much as 30 per cent.