Pruning

Definition

prune 1 /pru:n/ n မက္မန္းႏွင့္ဆင္ေသာ ဆီးသီးေျခာက္။ stewed prunes. prune 2 /pru:n/ v ၁။ ~ sth (from/ off sth); ~ sth (away/ back/ off) အကိုင္းအခက္ခ်ဳိင္သည္။ She has been pruning the roses. ❍ Prune back the longer branches. ❍ CLIP 2 ၂။ ~ sth (of sth); ~ sth (down) စိစစ္ေလွ်ာ့ခ်သည္။ ျဖတ္ေတာက္ သည္။ prune expenditure ❍ Try to prune your essay of irrelevant detail. ❍ I'm pruning down my Christmas card list this year. ❏ pruning n [U] ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ျခင္း (သို႔) အကိုင္းအခက္ ခ်ဳိင္ ျခင္း။ the pruning of overseas forces ❍ Careful pruning at the right time is the secret of success with roses. ❍ My article could do with a bit of pruning.

Examples

1. We’ll need to prune back the branches this year.
2. Companies must continually prune costs to stay competitive.