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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
downscale
I.adjective
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▪ a downscale motel
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▪ But the cost of staying at the downscale Hotel Stevens was only $ 4 a night.
II.verb
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▪ The military forces have been downscaled since the end of the Cold War.
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▪ Others will tighten their belts, downscale their programs, sell more t-shirts and look for local sources of revenue.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
downscale

1945, American English, from down (adv.) + scale (v.). From 1966 as an adjective.

Wiktionary
downscale
  1. Pertaining to something downmarket, of a lower quality. v

  2. To reduce in size, to downsize.

WordNet
downscale

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.