downsize

Verb

Verb Forms: downsized, downsizing, downsizes

• To reduce the size or number of something, often staff or products.
• dismiss from work
  • "three secretaries were downsized during the financial crisis"
• make in a smaller size
  • "the car makers downsized the SUVs when fuel became very expensive"
• reduce in size or number
  • "the company downsized its research staff"
• To reduce in size or number.
• To reduce the workforce of.
• To terminate the employment of.

Examples

• I had to DOWNSIZE my ambitions when only low-scoring Words With Friends words were possible.
• Joe and Edna moved to a bungalow after deciding to downsize when the children had left home.
• Joe got downsized and became a plumber.
• The company chose to downsize by laying off half of its workers.
• They downsized the division by offering attractive early-retirement packages and selling off an office building.

Synonyms

axe, can, decruit, dehire, discard, discharge, dismiss, downsize, fire, give someone the boot, give someone the heave-ho, give someone the old heave-ho, give someone their cards, give the axe, give the chop, give the elbow, lay off, let go, let someone go, make redundant, pink slip, promote to customer, retrench, rightsize, sack, serve notice, shit-can, term, terminate, throw out, unhire

Related Words

rightsize, upsize