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0 a reduction in spending by consumers, businesses, governments, etc., usually because they have financial problems:
1 involving a reduction in spending:
The government has recommended a series of belt-tightening reforms.
Over the past twenty years, Germany and Italy have taken belt-tightening measures that have helped improve their economies.
