The phrase "spending decrease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a reduction in expenditures or financial outlays.
Example: "The company's spending decrease over the last quarter has positively impacted its overall profitability."
Alternatives: "reduction in spending" or "decline in expenditures."
Economists said the spending decrease was much more severe than had been anticipated.
To meet the spending decrease, he said, the Pentagon will sharply cut payments for operating its bases in the United States as well as reduce training for troops — but only for those troops not preparing to deploy overseas into combat.
But the failure of the White House and Congress to agree on a sensible deficit-reduction plan, resulting in the 2011 sequester, condemned the Pentagon to cutting nearly a trillion dollars over a decade equivalent, on some calculations, to a real spending decrease of more than 30%.Meanwhile, the Pentagon is getting less bang for its buck.
"We obviously want to be able to use that as leverage to make sure that President Obama and the majority in the Senate understand that we would never agree to do such a thing unless there was a huge amount of spending decrease," Representative Candice Miller of Michigan said about the debt-limit vote.
Even when budgets were growing, swelling personnel costs left less money available for buying new weapons and developing new technologies.Clark Murdock of the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies CSISS) estimates the real spending decrease (in constant 2013 dollars and based on current law) from the 2010 peak to the 2021 trough to be a hefty 31%.
Over the next three years, however, as the American military and civilian presence — and spending — decrease, thousands of jobs will end for Afghans who work at or around bases and under grants and contracts financed by the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development.
During the recent holiday shopping season, Canada's online spending decreased from the year before, for the second consecutive year.
But he said he remained unhappy with Republican moderates who are resisting any tax cuts without corresponding spending decreases.
According to the report, spending decreased on such nondurable items as utilities and groceries.
In a survey for the annual report, corporate and professional meetings planners projected an average 3percentt increase in spending this year over last year, when spending decreased 1percentt over 2002.
But this was more than offset by continued cuts by state and local governments, whose spending decreased 3.8 percent.
