What is "reduced circumstances"

Usage examples of "reduced circumstances".

Vance as long as she still lived in Seventy-eighth Street, but when she was compelled to move into Thirteenth, her fear that the latter would take it as an indication of reduced circumstances caused her to study some way of avoiding the necessity of giving her address.

But she didn't enjoy being in such reduced circumstances--her ship should have the capability to do almost anything she wanted.

Am I in such reduced circumstances that I may not have a lady's maid?

Delo sounded more fretful about Malta's reduced circumstances than Malta herself.

If I was seen to arrive in reduced circumstances, eyebrows would be raised.

I know of no reason why she should be obliged to spend the rest of it in reduced circumstances.

Of course, Hoag Liebler was not a spy by training or inclination: he was a gentleman of reduced circumstances, forced first by financial constraints to exercise a Renaissance Minor gentleman's option of joining the military, and then constrained further -- by loyalty to his Pax and Church, he convinced himself, more than by the constant need for money to reclaim and restore his estates -- into spying on his captain.

Was he trying to gauge whether her reduced circumstances led to reduced morals?

Chief Inspector Pazzi, who had sternly lectured these same gray-faced directors of the Uffizi and members of the rival Belle Arti Commission on security following the museum bombing, must now appear before them in reduced circumstances to ask questions about a curator's love life.