downsize
downsize
Definition
☆ down·size (-sīz′)
transitive verb -·sized′, -·siz′·ing
- to design or manufacture a smaller version of
- to reduce in size, extent, etc. to downsize a company by eliminating jobs
intransitive verb
to become smaller in size or extent, as by eliminating employees or reducing expenditures
downsize
Usage Examples
Object
- engine: Highly downsized engines, with significant fuel economy are feasible in the short to medium term.
- workforce: For example productivity in manufacturing in this country has mainly arisen from downsizing the workforce whilst output has remained static.
- government: ERSAP also has its critics, however, who resent its tendency to downsize government and fear possible negative effects on growth and development.
- staff: A plan by management to drive us all toward the DIY machines so they can downsize yet more staff?
- company: Even downsizing solvent companies can benefit by divesting an asset that now has a residual value attached.
- people: Is downsizing people five to six college compared with.
Preposition: in
- order: The contrast with Juventus is that this cold, unloved arena is to be downsized in order that it might be made intimate.
Modifying Another Word
- now: It is being sold by its current artist owner who seeks to downsize now for her retirement.
- drastically: In 1999 Bristow lost major contracts and downsized drastically.
- recently: If you've recently downsized and need to deal with short-term staffing shortages.
- merely: Thus in times of declining provision for education, replacing teachers with computers is, in effect, merely downsizing in the academy.
- considerably: This centrally funded body should then be able to downsize considerably allowing significant cost savings to made at that level.
- also: It must also downsize its Larkfield mill in the UK.
Preposition: from
- home: And more older residents are queuing up to downsize from family homes -- in short supply -- across the district.
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