Mustafa is the president of ZoneIn Industries Inc., a company that manufactures PVC pipes and fittings. Due to losses incurred by the company, Mustafa reduced a major portion of the workers' pay and called it "temporary economic adaptation." In this scenario, the term used to represent the cutback exemplifies:

a$.$

libel.

b$.$

jargon.

c$.$

a redundancy.

d$.$

a euphemism.