reduction
Cutting something down
Reduction is the act of making something smaller or less.
A reduction in price, in force, in scope.
The word applies to many domains: in cooking, a reduction is a sauce thickened by boiling off liquid; in chemistry, reduction is the gain of electrons (opposite of oxidation); in surgery, reducing a fracture means realigning broken bones.
To reduce something to rubble is to destroy it completely.
The company announced workforce reductions.
Making more aerodynamic or efficient
- paring downGradual reduction process
- declutteringEliminating unnecessary possessions
- minimizingReducing to smallest extent
- abridgmentShortened form of text
condensation · synopsis · outline · pruning · boiling down · essence · summarization · compression
Reduction in size
- declineDecrease or refuse
- lesseningBecoming reduced in degree
- shrinkingDecreasing in dimension
- contractionReduction in size
abatement · drop · fall · cutback · dip · lowering · curtailment · decrement
Plan for spending
- savingsAccumulated money kept
- efficiencyProductive without waste
- cutbacksReductions in spending
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
trimming · discount · streamlining · overhead · expenditure · outsourcing · economizing · belt-tightening
Dropped sounds in speech
- vowelUnobstructed speech sound
- consonantIn agreement with
- contractionReduction in size
- syncopeTemporary loss of consciousness
cluster · deletion · assimilation · weakening · shortening · clipping
Mass job eliminations
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- rightsizingOptimizing employee numbers
- redundanciesUnneeded duplications or repetitions
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
reorganization · attrition · downsizing · severance · furlough · headcount · staffing · payroll
Liquid food accompaniment
- stockGoods kept for sale
- glazeThin lustrous coating
- simmerCook just under boiling
- thickeningIncreasing in density
gravy · consommé · demi-glace · broth · jus · balsamic · roux · fond
Measuring concentration by addition
- precipitationAtmospheric water deposit
- assayCompositional evaluation procedure
- distillationPurification via vaporization
- evaporationLiquid turning to gas
filtration · extraction · synthesis · crystallization · purification · centrifugation · oxidation · reagent
Suffering from difficult circumstances
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- penuryExtreme lack of money
impoverishment · want · privation · neediness · straitened circumstances · comedown · reversal of fortune
streamlining
Making more aerodynamic or efficient
- paring downGradual reduction process
- declutteringEliminating unnecessary possessions
- minimizingReducing to smallest extent
abridgment · condensation · synopsis · outline · pruning · boiling down · essence · summarization · compression · distillation
diminution
Reduction in size
contraction · abatement · drop · fall · cutback · dip · lowering · curtailment · decrement · tapering
budget
Plan for spending
- savingsAccumulated money kept
- efficiencyProductive without waste
- cutbacksReductions in spending
austerity · trimming · discount · streamlining · overhead · expenditure · outsourcing · economizing · belt-tightening · cost-cutting
elision
Dropped sounds in speech
- vowelUnobstructed speech sound
- consonantIn agreement with
- contractionReduction in size
syncope · cluster · deletion · assimilation · weakening · shortening · clipping
layoffs
Mass job eliminations
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- rightsizingOptimizing employee numbers
- redundanciesUnneeded duplications or repetitions
consolidation · reorganization · attrition · downsizing · severance · furlough · headcount · staffing · payroll · hiring freeze
sauce
Liquid food accompaniment
thickening · gravy · consommé · demi-glace · broth · jus · balsamic · roux · fond
titration
Measuring concentration by addition
- precipitationAtmospheric water deposit
- assayCompositional evaluation procedure
- distillationPurification via vaporization
evaporation · filtration · extraction · synthesis · crystallization · purification · centrifugation · oxidation · reagent · catalyst
hardship
Suffering from difficult circumstances
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
penury · impoverishment · want · privation · neediness · straitened circumstances · comedown · reversal of fortune
- cutbackscutback, cutbacks, decrease, layoff, budget cuts
- declinesdrop, decline, downtrend, downturn, downfall
- decreasesdecline, drop, fall, decrease, lessening
- DROP wordsfall, declines, slump, downturn, decreases
- mitigationrelief, easing, lessening, alleviation, amelioration
- step-downdecrease, decline, demotion, resignation, retirement
reductionincrease
Growth in amount
addition · increment · gain · augmentation · boost
reductionenlargement
Increase in size
expansion · magnification · extension · growth · amplification
- noise reductionDecreasing auditory interference
- stress reductionLessening mental tension
- greenhouse gas reductionLowering climate-warming emissions
- gradual reduction
- price reductionLowered cost of goods
- breast reductionSurgery to decrease bust size
reductions, reductive, reductionist, reductionism, reductively, reductiveness