What is "downsized"

Usage examples of "downsized".

Navy, even gutted and downsized as it was, could handle any three other navies in the world in less time than it would take the enemies to assemble their forces and send out a press release of their malicious intent.

Meanwhile the American companies had ruthlessly downsized everything from their automobile designs to their payrolls because they had relearned the economic facts of life even as the Japanese had allowed themselves to forget them.

To do anything else would have carried with it great dangers for a country whose military had been downsized and whose next-door neighbor was the nation with the world's largest standing army, and an historical enemy at that.

They've downsized since reunification, but what they retained is high-quality.

Blamed the only parent she'd had -- her mother -- who was so weird, boasting about being a philosophy professor, until the university downsized and she found out just how useless she was, barely able to waitress at the airport coffee shop.

They downsized again and merged another two jobs with mine and I couldn't believe it, I even went out on a limb and told my boss there was no time to get all this work done, and he sent me to a time management seminar and now I'm three more days behind!

He'd come very far and very fast in a downsized agency of the Russian government, and was doubtless still actively pursuing political and other intelligence, or rather, had a goodly staff of people to do it for him.

It was hard enough to get enough funding out of the Duma to keep his downsized agency operating, despite the fact that the downsized nation needed it more than ever before .

After taking credit for Republican legislative programs that downsized welfare and cut crime rates, he and Congress raised taxes while doing absolutely nothing to deal with the twin vexations of American life today: the health care confusion and the crisis in public education.

Seats were downsized along with the IQ levels of the average employee, because salaries were cut.

What’s the chance that you will be downsized or replaced with a younger worker?

Afterwards, being the only remaining superpower, we grew complacent, closed what were mistakenly labeled “surplus” bases, downsized our military, and left ourselves open for a sucker punch.

Some debated with quiet intensity while others clustered around Couvinpasdar, bombarding him with questions that arrived as fast as if they were propelled by downsized KK drives of their own.

From bridle to stirrup, every fragment of avian tack was downsized to the point of airiness.

High and sharply pitched, the consequent tone was astonishingly loud to have been produced by such downsized lungs.