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Reduce in size
Answer for the clue "Reduce in size ", 9 letters:
downscale
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Word definitions for downscale in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1945, American English, from down (adv.) + scale (v.). From 1966 as an adjective.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a downscale motel EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the cost of staying at the downscale Hotel Stevens was only $ 4 a night. II. verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The military forces have been downscaled since the end ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Pertaining to something downmarket, of a lower quality. v To reduce in size, to downsize.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. intended for people with low incomes; "mass-produced downscale versions of high-priced fashions"
Usage examples of downscale.
Even that drastically downscaled aspiration, however, seemed doomed to failure.
One shape at least Nita recognized, accompanied by the slow, calm, downscaling note of the Blue, as Aroooon passed by, a gold-tinged shadow in the background of greenness and the confusion of bodies.
One shape at least Nita recognized, accompanied by the slow, calm, downscaling note of the Blue, as Aroooon passed by, a gold-tinged shadow in the background of greenness and the confusion of bodies.
The downscaling without delay of all Britain's conventional armed forces to one fifth of their present size.
The downscaling without delay of all Britain’s conventional armed forces to one fifth of their present size.
Liberated housecats and hard-core strays ooze in and out of shadows, rustle in dumpsters, fuck and fight with hellish noises all around him as he walks, senses very sharp in the downscale night.
El Monte was a downscale suburb populated by white shitkickers and pachucos with duck's-ass haircuts.
She's dead at her house in Valinda, a downscale San Gabriel Valley town.