The company has to find a way to pare expenses. pared the stray branches on the tree
Recent Examples on the WebBangs expects this wave of cancellations to stabilize by the fall season as airlines pare back schedules and aggressively hire new pilots and other workers. David K. Li, NBC News, 27 June 2022 Consumers use the label to pare down their closets to fewer, better pieces and help benefit women through H.E.A.R.T. Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022 Walmart, like Target, has discounted goods to pare excess inventory. Sarah Nassauer, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022 Joe Flint looks at the age-old debate: Should Disney get rid of ESPN, in light of an activist investor’s calls to pare assets? — James Hibberd explores the fight for eyeballs among the fantasy juggernauts. Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022 The requirements would constrain the administration’s ability to pare fossil fuel developments on federal land, despite pleas from climate activists to halt drilling and rapidly pivot to green energy. Ari Natter, Bloomberg.com, 28 July 2022 Only if a weak stock market transitions into a sluggish economy will CFOs start to pare back dividend growth–and even then in a cautious way. Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 1 June 2022 Gas prices eased in April, which could help pare inflation in the Wednesday's CPI report. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 May 2022 Berkeley pledged at the time to pare back the police budget, as well as to rethink how its police operate. Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English paren, borrowed from Anglo-French parer "to make, prepare, adorn, trim, cut off," going back to Latin parāre "to supply, provide, make ready," probably verbal derivative of a nominal base *paro-, formed from parere "to give birth to, bring into being, produce" — more at parturient
Note: The Latin verb is alternatively taken as a direct outcome of an Indo-European present formation *pr̥h3-i̯e-, but the phonetic development has been questioned. Most of the numerous compound verbs formed from parāre, as apparāre "to prepare" (see apparatus), comparāre "to prepare, collect, muster," disparāre "to divide" (see disparate), praeparāre "to furnish beforehand, prepare," reparāre "to recover, restore" (see repair entry 1), sēparāre "to divide" (see separate entry 1), fail to show vowel weakening. The verbs imperāre "to levy, order, command" (see emperor) and properāre "to hasten" (perhaps of independent origin) are for uncertain reasons exceptions. The Romance development in sense from "prepare" to a more concrete "cut (the peeling from), trim"—well attested in Old French—has become virtually the only sense in English, with the broader French meaning "prepare, adorn, decorate" being only marginally attested.