The phrase "ability to slash" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the capacity or skill to cut or reduce something, often in a metaphorical sense, such as costs or prices.
Example: "The company's ability to slash expenses has significantly improved its profitability this quarter."
Alternatives: "capacity to cut" or "skill to reduce".
Perhaps the surgeon's ability to slash out the superfluous and concentrate on the essentials has moved here from scalpel to pen.
The Knicks are betting that his ability to slash, hit midrange jump shots and play tenacious, containment defense will win out over Carter's flair.
A forced climbdown or defeat for the government over its bill to limit legal aid or the benefits cap would raise further questions about the coalition's ability to slash departmental budgets.
The ability to slash real wages meant that firms could respond to weak demand by easing off on production and socking workers with a corresponding reduction in real pay.
The difficulty of reaching agreement underscores one of the central questions about how government should address the ups and downs of the business cycle: whether tax policy is always going to be so slow-moving that it can never be an effective anti-recession tool, especially when contrasted with the Federal Reserve's ability to slash interest rates quickly.
Both offer retailers a staggering rate of return on investment by virtue of their ability to slash garment return rates despite modest pricing," he says).
The winning entries in the International PM Design Competition announced at PM2TEC in Montréal showed the industry's technical strengths in no uncertain terms, and once again demonstrated powder metallurgy's powerful abilities to slash production costs….
That ability - to slash away - comes with experience and growing confidence, I suggest, and he responds eagerly: "I think so, yeah.
"It tells us who has the ability to kick, slash or shoot an opponent".
The issue of falling crime from a peak in 1995 to historic lows has divided criminologists - while being hailed by the Government as vindication of its policy to slash police budgets while maintaining their abilities to fight crime.
But that could change this week, amid mounting investor doubt about the ability of political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to slash spending and control budget deficits.
