scale down
cut down
scale back
neuter
lower
lightweight
take a bite out of
benficiate
mark down
knock down
saving
cut
abate
cut back
heuristics
bring down
take down
allocation
destocking
cutback
process
streamline
subprocess
beneficiate
dock
downshift
skinny
narrow
constrain
defensive
cheap out
salami-slice
shorten
special
decoct
decapacitate
Six Sigma
attenuate
supervisor
crank the handle
cost saving
sell down
cut red tape
tax relief
greenize
debureaucratize
cheapen
downscale
budget cut
pare down
draw down
degearing
digest
bioimmuration
drawdown
downsize
retrenchment
lessen
pick up
degaussing
scale up
lighten
draw in
processwide
decruit
soften the blow
discretizer
mail merge
destock
let down
trim
scaleback
minimin
reduction
tax shelter
minimalize
shelter
devalue
ease
pipeline
economy
submit
booter
schwebeablaut
furlough
renice
microfracturing
shave
axenization
invent
appendix
postrequisite
defensive
processwide
saving
heuristics
allocation
destocking
cutback
special
supervisor
cost saving
tax relief
budget cut
subprocess
degearing
bioimmuration
drawdown
retrenchment
degaussing
discretizer
scaleback
minimin
reduction
tax shelter
shelter
pipeline
economy
booter
furlough
microfracturing
axenization
appendix
postrequisite
scale down
cut down
scale back
neuter
lower
lightweight
take a bite out of
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abate
cut back
bring down
take down
process
streamline
subprocess
beneficiate
dock
downshift
skinny
narrow
constrain
cheap out
salami-slice
shorten
decoct
decapacitate
attenuate
crank the handle
sell down
cut red tape
greenize
debureaucratize
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pare down
draw down
digest
downsize
lessen
pick up
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draw in
decruit
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mail merge
destock
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trim
minimalize
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ease
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schwebeablaut
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shave
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verb
- To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
- To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
- To rid of sexuality.
adj
- Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
- Sexless, nonsexual.
- Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
- Intransitive.
- Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
noun
- A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
- An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- The neuter gender.
verb
- To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- To bring down; to humble
- (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- To reduce the height of
- To depress as to direction
- to pull down
- To make less elevated
- To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
adj
verb
adj
- Lacking in earnestness, ability, or profundity
- Having less than average weight
- Lacking in strength
- Having a small footprint or performance impact
noun
- A political candidate with little chance of winning
- A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
- A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
- A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
- One of little consequence or ability.
- A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
- A person with low endurance.
verb
- To reduce the price of.
- To drink fast.
- To disassemble for shipment.
- To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
- To demolish.
- To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table.
- At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
noun
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- The action of the verb to save.
- Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
adj
- Preserving; rescuing.
- Thrifty; frugal.
- That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- Relating to making a saving.
- Making reservation or exception.
prep
verb
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To exhibit (a quality).
- To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- To wound with a knife.
- To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- To stop, disengage, or cease.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- To make or negotiate.
- To castrate or geld.
- To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To change direction suddenly.
- To perform (a dancing movement etc.).
- To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
adj
- Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- Reduced.
- Having been cut.
- Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- Carved into a shape; not raw.
- Emotionally hurt.
noun
- A particular version or edit of a film.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- A skein of yarn.
- A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- The result of cutting.
- In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
- The act of cutting.
- An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
- Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- A slab, especially of meat.
- A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- A haircut.
- A decrease.
intj
verb
- To reduce (something) in amount or size.
- To decrease in amount or size.
- To lower (something) in price or value.
- Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
- To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
- To put an end to (a nuisance).
- To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
- To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
- Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
- To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
- To enter upon and unlawfully seize (land) after the owner has died, thus preventing an heir from taking possession of it.
- To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
noun
noun
- Experience-based methods used to reduce the need for calculations pertaining to equipment size, performance, or operating conditions.
- Simple, efficient rules which people often use to form judgments and make decisions.
- The study of heuristic methods and principles.
- Heuristic methods and approaches considered collectively.
verb
- To reduce.
- To cause to fall down, e.g. in an accident.
- To make something, especially something flying, fall to the ground, usually by firing a weapon of some kind.
- To make someone feel bad emotionally.
- To make a ruler lose their position of power.
- To cause an opponent to fall after a tackle.
- To humble.
verb
- To reduce.
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a website.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- I took down the medicine and soon felt better.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- If you have a pen, you can take down my phone number.
- To swallow.
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
noun
- A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.
- An offensive pass played into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- Maneuver where the surfer turns and surfs back towards where the wave is breaking.
- Solvent-thinned bitumen used in cold process roofing adhesives, cements and coatings.
verb
- To perform a particular process on a thing.
- To develop photographic film.
- To take legal proceedings against.
- To walk in a procession
- To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
noun
- Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
- A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
- A series of events which produce a result (the product).
- An executable task or program.
- Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- A structure that arises above a surface.
- An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
verb
- To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
- To join two moving items.
- To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- To engage in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
- To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
- To land at a harbour.
- To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
noun
- The place of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop computer (in this case, referred to as a docking station), or a mobile telephone, for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
- A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications, and switching between running applications.
- An act of docking; joining two things together.
- Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
- The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
- A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- The body of water between two piers.
verb
- To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
- To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
- To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
- To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
- To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
- To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
noun
verb
adj
- thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
- Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
- tight-fitting
- Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”)
- Having reduced fat or calories.
noun
verb
- To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- To get narrower.
adj
- Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- Having a small margin or degree.
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
noun
adj
- Performed so as to minimise risk.
- Intended for defence; protective.
- In a state or posture of defense.
- Of a bowling or fielding tactic designed to prevent the other side from scoring runs; of a batting tactic designed to prevent being out.
- Displaying an inordinate sensitivity to criticism or intrusion; oversensitive; thin-skinned.
- Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack.
- Intended to deter attack.
noun
noun
- A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered.
- Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.
- A person appointed specifically to examine a single event or issue.
- Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
- A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
- One of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price at a restaurant.
- A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.
- A special constable.
- A correspondent; a journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
- Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
adj
- Chief in excellence.
- Of particular personal interest or value; dear; beloved.
- Of or related to disabilities, especially learning or intellectual disabilities.
- Distinguished by a unique or unusual quality.
- Constituting or relating to a species.
- Of or related to unconventional warfare.
verb
verb
- To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- To weaken.
- To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- To rarefy.
- (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
- To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
- To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
adj
noun
- A process responsible for managing other processes.
- In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
- A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
- A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
verb
- To perform a process; to do some work.
- 2006, Rebecca Jordan and Kirsty Weir, In Good Company: The essential business start-up guide for women, A & C Black, page 229
- 2010, Robert Mnookin, Bargaining with the Devil: When the Negotiate, When to Fight, Simon & Schuster, page 32-33
- 2009, Nick Gifford, Information Security: Managing the Legal Risks, CCH Australia
- 2008, Brad Thor, The Last Patriot, Atria Books
verb
- To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
- To undergo digestion.
- To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
- To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
noun
- Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
- That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
- A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
- The result of applying a hash function to a message.
noun
- The result of reduction, utilization, or depletion.
- The withdrawal of weapons, ammunition and other supplies from US stocks, and provision of it to another nation.
- The act of reduction or depletion (including through withdrawal or utilization).
- A lowering in water level, as in a well or a reservoir.
- (A measure of) the decline from a historical peak in some economic or financial variable.
- The process of a bank releasing previously agreed loan amount to the borrower, hence making it available for them to use.
- The borrowing of funds from a financial institution, under the terms of a credit agreement.
verb
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To record; to notch up.
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- To restart or resume.
- To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- To pay for.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To collect a passenger.
verb
- To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
- To become light or lighter in weight.
- To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
- To make less serious or more cheerful.
- To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
- To descend; to light.
- To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
- To become less serious or more cheerful.
- To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
- To make light or lighter in weight.
verb
- To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
- To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
- To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
- To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
- To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
- To cut back the wick of (a lamp) to maintain a clean, bright flame.
- To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
- To dress; to make smooth.
- To change the carbon rods of (an arc lamp).
noun
- The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
- Dress; gear; ornaments.
- The mechanism(s) used to trim an aircraft in roll, pitch, and/or yaw.
- The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
- A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
- The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
- The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.
adv
adj
noun
- The act, process, or result of reducing.
- a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
- An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
- A reduced price of something by a fraction or decimal.
- The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
- A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
- The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
- The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
- A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
- The ratio of a material's change in thickness compared to its thickness prior to forging and/or rolling.
- A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment, usually with a closed approach but sometimes with an open approach (surgery).
verb
- To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- To proceed with little effort.
- To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
- To lessen in intensity.
- To give respite to (someone).
noun
- Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Ability, the means to do something
- Freedom from difficulty.
- Skill, dexterity, facility.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from effort, leisure, rest.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
noun
- A system or process through which something is conducted.
- A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
- A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc.
- The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
verb
- To design (a microchip etc.) so that processing takes place in efficient stages, the output of each stage being fed as input to the next.
- To connect a tube from ones mouth to ones anus (or the anus of another), in order to force someone to eat feces.
- To convey something by a system of pipes
- To lay a system of pipes through something
noun
- A program or process that boots.
- The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
- The floppy disk used to launch a game in such a manner.
- A person who plays association football.
- A game that is launched by booting directly from the floppy disk containing the game program, rather than starting the program from within the computer's standard operating system.
verb
- To reduce in size or weight.
- To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
- To cut anything in this fashion.
- To remove hair from one's face by this means.
- To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
- To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
noun
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