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scaling back
vb. (present participle of scale back English)
Usage examples of "scaling back".
Li is said to be intent on scaling back China's economic growth, which he feels to be unstable, should he take control.
She'd have quit, but summer -- and the tourist season -- was ending, so the other area businesses were scaling back.
They were just scaling back to the peacetime levels known by their great-grandfathers.