DOWNSIZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does downsizing mean? 

• DOWNSIZING (noun)
  The noun DOWNSIZING has 1 sense:

1. the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

  Familiarity information: DOWNSIZING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOWNSIZING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

curtailment; downsizing; retrenchment

Hypernyms ("downsizing" is a kind of...):

economy; saving (an act of economizing; reduction in cost)

 Context examples 

Your mother may be interested in downsizing to a smaller home or investigating assisted-living facilities to choose one that feels right for her.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Previous observations by Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) revealed that the planet may be downsizing.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

Astronomers have followed this downsizing since the 1930s.

(Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking, NASA)