downsize
(verb)
verb
1. dismiss from work
- three secretaries were downsized during the financial crisis
Definition categories: social, furlough
2. design or manufacture in a smaller size
- the car makers downsized the SUVs when fuel became very expensive
Definition categories: change, reduce, shrink
3. (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees
- the company downsized its research staff
Definition categories: change, cut, reduce, trim
Sentences with downsize as a verb:
- Joe and Edna moved to a bungalow after deciding to downsize when the children had left home.
- 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.
- Joe got downsized and became a plumber.