EGAVE

downsize

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To reduce in size or number.
    Joe and Edna moved to a bungalow after deciding to downsize when the children had left home.
  2. verb To reduce the workforce of.
    They downsized the division by offering attractive early-retirement packages and selling off an office building.
  3. verb To terminate the employment of.
    Joe got downsized and became a plumber.

Similar words

reduce decrease minimize diminish shrink shorten reducing curtail narrow deflate

Often followed by

the and their or its to your government in

Word family

downsized downsizes downsizing

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