belt-tightening vs quelling

belt-tightening

adj
  • Causing or involving a reduction in expenditure. 

noun
  • A reduction in expenditure, often as a result of financial restrictions. 

quelling

adj
  • causing something to quell or be quelled 

noun
  • The act by which something is quelled. 

How often have the words belt-tightening and quelling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )