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Synonyms for downsize
ˈdaʊnˌsaɪzdown·size

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  1. downsizeverb

    (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees

    "the company downsized its research staff"

  2. downsizeverb

    design or manufacture in a smaller size

    "the car makers downsized the SUVs when fuel became very expensive"

  3. downsizeverb

    dismiss from work

    "three secretaries were downsized during the financial crisis"

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  1. List of paraphrases for "downsize":

    reduce

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How to use downsize in a sentence?

  1. Tunde Leye:

    Businesses may struggle to survive, or in the best case scenario, would at least downsize.

  2. Aerospace Industries Association:

    Without additional relief from BCA caps, companies in the defense industrial base will continue to downsize or be forced out of the defense business altogether.

  3. Jonathan Fearon:

    One way (to boost capital) is to downsize the investment bank, the other is to raise capital. I would not be surprised to see a mixture of these two.

  4. Dave Prentiss:

    We are looking to downsize a bit.

  5. John Hyten:

    We made a decision about five or six years ago that we would downsize our military (health care) capabilities in the United States ... to only really focus on our deployed requirements.


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