downsized
Cut workforce significantly
Downsized means reduced in size, especially through corporate layoffs.
A company downsizes by eliminating positions: The firm downsized from 500 employees to 300.
The term emerged as a corporate euphemism—being downsized sounds less harsh than being fired or laid off.
It also applies to scaling back generally: They downsized to a smaller house after the kids moved out.
Mass job eliminations
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- cost-cuttingReducing expenditures deliberately
- outsourcingThird-party task delegation
workforce · unemployment · severance · cutbacks · consolidation · rightsizing · retrenchment · redeployment
Made or became smaller
- lessenedMade or became smaller
- shrunkenReduced from original dimensions
- decreasedBecame smaller in amount
- scaled-downReduced proportionally
contracted · minimized · lowered · curtailed · depleted · dwindled · condensed · abridged
Made less complex
- leanerMore spare, less fat
- efficientProductive without waste
- declutteredFreed from unnecessary items
- optimizedMade maximally efficient
reorganized · restructured · trimmed · pruned · consolidated · focused · agile · economized
Of reduced magnitude
- space-savingMinimizing area used
- miniatureReduced-scale representation
- scaled-downReduced proportionally
- snugComfortably close-fitting
tiny · cramped · confined · condensed · compressed · squeezed · economical · efficient
layoffs
Mass job eliminations
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- cost-cuttingReducing expenditures deliberately
outsourcing · workforce · unemployment · severance · cutbacks · consolidation · rightsizing · retrenchment · redeployment · attrition
diminished
Made or became smaller
- lessenedMade or became smaller
- shrunkenReduced from original dimensions
- decreasedBecame smaller in amount
scaled-down · contracted · minimized · lowered · curtailed · depleted · dwindled · condensed · abridged · trimmed
simplified
Made less complex
- leanerMore spare, less fat
- efficientProductive without waste
- declutteredFreed from unnecessary items
optimized · reorganized · restructured · trimmed · pruned · consolidated · focused · agile · economized · slimmed
smaller
Of reduced magnitude
- space-savingMinimizing area used
- miniatureReduced-scale representation
- scaled-downReduced proportionally
snug · tiny · cramped · confined · condensed · compressed · squeezed · economical · efficient · modest
- Euphemismspass away, passed away, passed on, expecting, with child
- smallnesssmall, little, tiny, mini, miniature
- compactcompact, small, tiny, mini, miniature
- oustedfired, axed, sacked, canned, terminated
- job transitionjob search, unemployed, laid off, career change, interviewing
- diminisheddevalued, lessened, decreased, depreciated, reduced
downsize, downsizing, downsizes, downsizer, downsizings, downsizers, downsizable