The phrase "aimed at slashing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or initiatives intended to reduce costs, expenses, or other quantities significantly.
Example: "The new policy is aimed at slashing operational costs to improve overall efficiency."
Alternatives: "intended to cut" or "designed to reduce".
George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, announced the long-awaited results of a public-spending review aimed at slashing Britain's deficit.
The cap, announced by Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement last year, is aimed at slashing £5 billion from the welfare bill over the next five years.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is leading discussions aimed at slashing more than $2 trillion from the federal deficit over the coming decade as the price for permitting the government to take on more debt to pay current obligations.
And, despite current talk of policies aimed at slashing the federal deficit, discretionary programmes are being cut by only around 5%; and the big ticket items – social security, Medicare, defence spending, national security – are mainly exempt from spending reductions.
Two years ago, Coach, the venerable American leather goods concern that shares many of Ralph Lauren's problems and opportunities, embarked on a similar turnaround aimed at slashing costs and lifting profitability.
HAVANA — Nearly two years into the Cuban government's economic overhaul aimed at slashing public payrolls and bolstering private enterprise, the reforms have slowed so much that many Cuban entrepreneurs and intellectuals are questioning the aging leadership's ability — or will — to reshape one of the world's last Communist systems and shift nearly half of the island's output to private hands.
It's just one piece of New York's air quality strategy, which also aims at slashing greenhouse gas emissions 80% from 2005 levels by 2050, says Mark Chambers, director of the mayor's Office of Sustainability.
Such efforts aim at slashing days off of Polo's "cash-to-cash cycle," how long it takes from first spending cash to make a product line all the way to collecting payment on the orders delivered to stores.
The goal of this study is to present the Discovery NM 530c (DNM), a cardiac SPECT camera, interfacing multi-pinhole collimators with solid-state modules, aiming at slashing acquisition time without jeopardizing quality.
Strikes or protests were also taking place Wednesday in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Slovenia and Lithuania, all aimed at the budget-slashing, tax-hiking, pension-cutting austerity plans that European governments have implemented to try to control their debt.
Given the state of the industry and the terms of the deal, a Wall Street Journal blog argues, the failure of the buy-out scheme was all but inevitable.At least for now, it seems that the bankruptcy filing is aimed at restructuring debt rather than slashing lots of jobs.
