downsizes
Reduces the workforce
Downsizes means reduces in size or scale.
A company that downsizes cuts its workforce: The firm downsized by laying off three hundred employees.
A person who downsizes moves to a smaller home or simplifies their lifestyle: After the kids left, we downsized to a two-bedroom condo.
The word often softens the harshness of what it describes.
Mass job eliminations
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- redundanciesUnneeded duplications or repetitions
- workforceAll available workers
- cutsSevers or reduces
streamlines · reorganizes · consolidates · outsources · rightsizes · headcount · severance · terminations
Changes one's residence
- movesChanges in position
- smallerOf reduced magnitude
- apartmentRented unit in building
- condoOwned multi-unit dwelling
retirement · sells · home · house · cottage · bungalow · studio · downgrade
Eliminates unnecessary items
- simplifiesMakes less complex
- minimizesReduces to smallest extent
- purgesForcible removals from power
- reducesMakes less in quantity
condenses · possessions · belongings · minimalism · simplifying · streamlining · uncluttering · shedding
layoffs
Mass job eliminations
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- redundanciesUnneeded duplications or repetitions
- workforceAll available workers
cuts · streamlines · reorganizes · consolidates · outsources · rightsizes · headcount · severance · terminations · reductions
relocates
Changes one's residence
condo · retirement · sells · home · house · cottage · bungalow · studio · downgrade · affordable
declutters
Eliminates unnecessary items
- simplifiesMakes less complex
- minimizesReduces to smallest extent
- purgesForcible removals from power
reduces · condenses · possessions · belongings · minimalism · simplifying · streamlining · uncluttering · shedding · lightening
downsizesupsizes
Increases in scale
enlarges · expands · supersizes · scales up · grows
downsizesexpands
Increases in volume
invests · acquires · grows · diversifies · capitalizes
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