crunch // noun, verb

■ noun [C, usually sing.]

a situation in which there is suddenly not enough of sth, especially money:

The company is facing a severe cash crunch.

The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates to try to avoid a credit crunch.

a cash/credit/liquidity/supply crunch

◆ an energy/ a labour crunch

◆ to avoid/ease/experience/face a crunch

■ verb [+ obj]

(IT )

to deal with large amounts of data very quickly:

Today's processors can crunch numbers at an incredible rate.

⇨ NUMBER CRUNCHER

• revenue reserve
• revenue stamp
• revenue stream
• revenue tariff
• reversal
• reverse
• reverse auction
• reverse billing
• reverse-charge
• reverse engineering
• reverse logistics
• reverse mentoring
• reverse merger
• reverse repurchase agreement
• reverse split
• reverse takeover
• reversion
• revex
• review
• revise
• revitalize
• revive
• revoke
• revolution
• revolve