📖 Definitions of "Downsizes"
verb
- 1
To reduce in size or number.
"Joe and Edna moved to a bungalow after deciding to downsize when the children had left home."
- 2
To reduce the workforce of.
"They downsized the division by offering attractive early-retirement packages and selling off an office building."
- 3
To terminate the employment of.
"Joe got downsized and became a plumber."
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Downsizes"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| trimsnoun | (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess. |
| slashesnoun | A slashing action or motion: |
| paresnoun | A village in central Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda, an estate established by John Pare in 1750. |
| slimsnoun | A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes. |
| rehiresnoun | A former employee who has been hired again. |
| hiresnoun | A surname. |
| buysnoun | A surname from Dutch. |
| jiltsnoun | A woman who readily casts aside her lover. |
| bulldozesnoun | An act of demolition with a bulldozer. |
| layoffsnoun | (chiefly US) A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct). |
| lopsnoun | That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree. |
| razesnoun | A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through. |
| mothballnoun | (chiefly in the plural) A small ball of chemical pesticide (originally camphor and now typically naphthalene or paradichlorobenzene) and deodorant placed in or around clothing and other articles to deter moth larvae which may damage them. |
| shutteringnoun | (construction) Formwork. |
| mullsnoun | (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. |
| implodesnoun | — |
| cutbacksnoun | A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service. |
| reversesnoun | The opposite of something. |
| whittlesnoun | A knife; especially, a clasp-knife, pocket knife, or sheath knife. |
| shrinkingnoun | The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away. |
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