downsize
verb/ˈdaʊnsaɪz/
/ˈdaʊnsaɪz/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they downsize | /ˈdaʊnsaɪz/ /ˈdaʊnsaɪz/ |
| he / she / it downsizes | /ˈdaʊnsaɪzɪz/ /ˈdaʊnsaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple downsized | /ˈdaʊnsaɪzd/ /ˈdaʊnsaɪzd/ |
| past participle downsized | /ˈdaʊnsaɪzd/ /ˈdaʊnsaɪzd/ |
| -ing form downsizing | /ˈdaʊnsaɪzɪŋ/ /ˈdaʊnsaɪzɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] (business) to reduce the number of people who work in a company, business, etc. in order to reduce costs
- downsize something The larger companies are all planning to downsize their US operations.
- downsize (from something) (to something) The worsening situation forced the company to downsize from 39 employees to 7.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDownsize is used with these nouns as the object:- workforce
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- [intransitive] downsize (to something) to move to a smaller home
- The couple are downsizing to a more compact home.
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