| 释义 |
rightsize, v. orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈraɪtsaɪz|
Also right-size.
[f. right adv. + size v.1, after down-size v.]
trans. To convert to an appropriate or optimum size; spec. (euphem.) to reduce the size of (an enterprise) by discharging employees. So rightsizing vbl. n.
1987Black Enterprise Dec. 59/2 Roberts bristles when he hears the word downsizing; he dubs the process ‘rightsizing’. And he plans to ‘rightsize’ a number of departments by offering white-collar employees salaried separation packages. 1990Business Week 26 Feb. 63/2 He adds that ‘we're right-sizing our organisation’ by reexamining how work is done. Layoffs could result. 1991Daily Commercial News (Sydney) 13 June 25/2 Australia has sought to rejig its schedules through the winter season in an effort to ‘right-size’ operations to demand. 1992Byte Oct. 162/1 The current wave of what is variously referred to as reengineering, rightsizing, or downsizing has one immediate goal: to reduce the cost of doing business. 1993Computing 3 June 18/1 No longer willing to take only the technology they are given, organisations across the world are beginning to rightsize systems to suit themselves. |