Synonyms for downsize
ˈdaʊnˌsaɪzdown·size

Princeton's WordNet

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"

Matched Categories

1. • Lay Off
   • Reduce

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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.