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scale down

VERB
  1. make smaller
    reduce an image
  2. reduce proportionally
    The model is scaled down

How To Use scale down In A Sentence

  • We need to end the entente between governments and the groups and scale down all political activities conducted under the veil of charity and religion.
  • Concerns exist over Hewlett Packard and Compaq who are to merge in an effort to beat the scale down in the high tech sector.
  • But investors and analysts fear the deal will underwhelm, owing to political differences that have forced Europe to scale down the measures' ambition. European Pact Loses Muscle
  • One Peking factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six.
  • One Peking factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six.
  • In fact, a look back at Obama's standing on the Gallup question over the past year suggests that the most recent results represent a leveling effect of sorts -- a return to the norm rather than some sort of larger-scale downtick. The Fix: Gallup poll -- Obama's approval rating levels off
  • A shortage of money has forced them to scale down the project.
  • There may be 'game changers' in energy but laser fusion probably isn't one of them - it is simply too expensive; doesn't scale down well; with D-T fuel, still have unsolved engineering problem of building power plants that can harvest energy for decades from huge fluxes of deadly 14 MeV neutrons produced by fusion reactions. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Thomas Friedman - The Next Really Cool Thing (NYT)
  • We are going to scale down the number of trees being felled.
  • It is in a man's nature to pursue success and to scale the next higher mountain," said Felix Ng. "It is in a woman's nature to safeguard success and scale down on the headiness of material pursuits for other important aspects of life. Why So Few Self-Made Billionaire Women?
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