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• n  a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
• n  (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel
  she could peel an apple with a single long paring
• v  decrease gradually or bit by bit
• v  cut small bits or pare shavings from
• v  strip the skin off
• v  remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
• v  make a score (on a hole) equal to par

• Reagan came to the cotillion with an aura of invincibility from his decisive, and uncompromising, victory in paring $36 billion from the fiscal 1982 budget, which was formally .
• Four successive CIA directorsJames Schlesinger, William Colby, George Bush and Turnerhave considered the Operations branch to be bloated and in need of paring.
• For years, the worst moniker you heard thrown at Goodwin, the former boss of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), was "Fred the Shred," on account of his knack for paring costs.

• sliver
• shaving
• pare
• pare down
• whittle
• skin
• peel
• trim
• par

News & Articles

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• Analysis: This time, bond investors think a Fed pullback is real
  By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) - This time, the Fed is serious. That's the judgment of U.S. government bond investors who believe the Federal Reserve is close to paring back its $2.5 trillion, 4-1/2-year bond purchase program, and it's causing turmoil in the U.S. Treasury market. Trading in Treasuries has turned notably more volatile in recent days and volatility may continue as traders ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Pennsbury administrators pare projected deficit from $1.1M to $440,000; board to take final vote June 14
  PENNSBURY – District administrators continue to whittle down the budget deficit, paring it from $1.1-million in the proposed 2013-14 budget to $440,000 with the goal of presenting a balanced budget at the school board’s June 14 meeting.
  June 13, 2013 - Yardley News
• This time, bond investors think a Fed pullback is real
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - This time, the Fed is serious. That's the judgment of U.S. government bond investors who believe the Federal Reserve is close to paring back its $2.5 trillion (1.59 trillion pounds), ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Dar Williams in American Songwriter
  With every album, I'm trying to figure out what I don't have to say, while still giving each song its due,Williams said in a press release. "On Promised Land, I was paring the stories down to their core."
• Jodi Rell in Hartford Courant
  The state is paring its expenses and looking for savings,Rell said in a written statement. "With tax revenues slipping below projections and the national outlook growing dimmer, we have to make sensible cost-cutting moves."
• Ron Wilson in Toronto Star
  I came with my eyes wide open,said Wilson. "I knew it would be very difficult, if not close to impossible, to make the playoffs. We were looking at paring things back and trying to develop some young people and just going through the whole...