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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
downsize .
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Examples
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Every time a company "downsizes" - that is to say, fires workers - its productivity figures go up if the same quantity of goods/services is produced.
Michael Brenner: Lies, Statistics and Economic Statistics 2009
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Casse continues: Mr. Caplan also claims that voters revile a corporation that downsizes at home and sends jobs abroad, a business decision that most economists view as socially productive.
Do Voters' Biases Bias Policy?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The question is: Can our over-armed global mission be radically downsized before it downsizes us?
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? Tom Engelhardt 2010
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The question is: Can our over-armed global mission be radically downsized before it downsizes us?
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? Tom Engelhardt 2010
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On Monday Corus downsizes, on Tuesday the lead item on Today is all about the problems in the steel/car industry.
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Bank of America Corp., UBS AG and other financial firms are now subleasing or shedding hundreds of thousands of square feet as the industry downsizes.
It's Hardly a Ball for 11 Times Square Eliot Brown 2012
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I don't want to be the next one laid off when the company downsizes again, says John de Graaf, executive director of Take Back Your Time, Seattle, a nonprofit that researches the effects of overwork.
Unlimited Vacation, but Can You Take It? Sue Shellenbarger 2011
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Organic revenue growth in GE's industrial businesses, which it has been counting on to drive results as it downsizes its GE Capital financial arm, was up only 3% in the second quarter, a slowdown from a 5% first-quarter growth rate.
GE's Earnings Rise 21% Bob Sechler 2011
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"The military might not need their specialty anymore, especially as it downsizes in Iraq," he says.
Do Ask, Do Tell 2010
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There's not much room on the frame -- storage only covers 512 megabytes, but Kodak (and Pandigital) downsizes the photos greatly in order to display them on the small screen and fit more photos.
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