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# downsizing

«downsizing» in Mova's school dictionary: **when a company makes itself smaller by cutting jobs…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (downsizing — uncountable); verb form of downsize (downsize, downsizes, downsized, downsizing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Downsizing is when a company makes itself smaller by cutting jobs; workers lose their jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downsizing/#m1)

2) Downsizing is moving to a smaller house or having fewer things, often when children have grown up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downsizing/#m2)

3) (euphemism) Companies say "downsizing" as a softer word for sacking workers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downsizing/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In news and economics: a company announces downsizing. In everyday life grandparents downsize to a smaller flat. A euphemism: it hides the hard fact that people lose their jobs. Phrases: downsizing of staff, downsize to.

### examples

- The factory's downsizing meant 50 people lost their jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downsizing/#x1)
- After the children left home, my grandparents downsized to a bungalow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downsizing/#x2)
- The company called it downsizing, but Dad was let go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downsizing/#x3)
- Downsizing a team can make the others work harder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downsizing/#x4)
- We are downsizing our toy collection and giving some away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downsizing/#x5)
- The shop is downsizing to a smaller building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downsizing/#x6)

### note

Uncountable noun. Similar euphemisms: cutbacks, restructuring, let go, made redundant. In maths: if a company with 400 workers cuts 25 percent, 100 jobs go and 300 are left.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «downsizing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/downsizing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.