downsize
verb /ˈdaʊnsaɪz/
/ˈdaʊnsaɪz/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they downsize | /ˈdaʊnsaɪz/ /ˈdaʊnsaɪz/ |
| he / she / it downsizes | /ˈdaʊnsaɪzɪz/ /ˈdaʊnsaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple downsized | /ˈdaʊnsaɪzd/ /ˈdaʊnsaɪzd/ |
| past participle downsized | /ˈdaʊnsaɪzd/ /ˈdaʊnsaɪzd/ |
| -ing form downsizing | /ˈdaʊnsaɪzɪŋ/ /ˈdaʊnsaɪzɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] (business) to reduce the number of people who work in a company, business, etc. in order to reduce costs
- downsize something The larger companies are all planning to downsize their US operations.
- downsize (from something) (to something) The worsening situation forced the company to downsize from 39 employees to 7.
Synonyms cutcutTopics Businessc2- slash
- cut something back
- scale something back
- rationalize
- downsize
- cut to reduce something, especially an amount of money that is demanded, spent, earned, etc. or the size of a business:
- The President has promised to cut taxes significantly.
- Buyers will bargain hard to cut the cost of the house they want.
- His salary has been cut by ten per cent.
- Could you cut your essay from 5 000 to 3 000 words?
- slash [often passive] (rather informal) (often used in newspapers) to reduce something by a large amount:
- The workforce has been slashed by half.
- cut something back/cut back on something to reduce something, especially an amount of money or business:
- We had to cut back production.
- scale something back (especially North American English or business) to reduce something, especially an amount of money or business:
- The IMF has scaled back its growth forecasts for the next decade.
- rationalize (British English, business) to make changes to a business or system, in order to make it more efficient, especially by spending less money.
- downsize (business) to make a company or an organization smaller by reducing the number of jobs in it, in order to reduce costs. Downsize is often used by people who want to avoid saying more obvious words like ‘dismiss’ or ‘make redundant’ because they sound too negative.
- to cut/slash/cut back on/scale back/rationalize spending/production
- to cut/slash/cut back on jobs
- to cut/slash/downsize the workforce
- to cut/slash/rationalize the cost of something
- to cut/slash prices/taxes/the budget
- to cut something/slash something/cut something back drastically
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDownsize is used with these nouns as the object:- workforce
- [intransitive] downsize (to something) to move to a smaller home
- The couple are downsizing to a more compact home.