downsize

CEFRB2

/ˈdaʊnsaɪz/

verb

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Examples

You may downsize to a smaller house.
Joe and Edna moved to a bungalow after deciding to downsize when the children had left home.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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In context

The company chose to downsize by laying off half of its workers.
They downsized the division by offering attractive early-retirement packages and selling off an office building.
Sami helped companies downsize.

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Class 108 DMU LO257 awaits departure from Manchester Victoria on June 19 1991. Possessing 16 platforms in the 1960s, the station was significantly downsized in the early 1990s and today just six platforms remain.
2020 June 3, Philip Haigh, “Who can clean up Manchester's mess?”, in Rail, page 48, photo caption
While some of these moves will be prompted by, for instance, releasing equity to help children get on the property ladder, David Fell, Hamptons' senior analyst, says many will probably be downsizing to reduce mortgage payments to a more manageable level.
2023 November 25, Alexandra Goss, “Downsizers’ dilemma”, in FT Weekend (House & Home section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1

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