downscale
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Synonyms & Antonyms for downscale
Synonyms: Verb
abate, de-escalate, decrease, dent, deplete, diminish, downsize, drop, dwindle, ease, knock down, lessen, lower, reduce
Antonyms: Verb
aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, raise
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Examples of downscale in a Sentence
Verb
The festival will have to be downscaled this year. the poor economy forced the plant to downscale productionAdjective
an apartment in a downscale neighborhood The company aims to reach a more downscale market with its new stores.
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
It’s hard to consider a restaurant an upstart nine years into its tenure, but crossover success remains elusive for Hue Gourmet, which routinely is passed over by those who find the food too unfamiliar or the surroundings too downscale. — Dominic Armato, azcentral, "Go to Hue Gourmet for Vietnamese cuisine you can't find anywhere else in metro Phoenix," 10 July 2019 And so that was about shifting Democrats from basically going after downscale manufacturing workers to working women who were leaving their kids, and for whom really there’d been almost no policy or politics up until that point. — Elizabeth Crane, Recode, "Full transcript: ‘Microtrends’ author and political strategist Mark Penn on Recode Decode," 18 May 2018 These promises played a crucial role in helping attract downscale Democrats in the Midwest who had voted for Obama but now saw Trump as the economic populist candidate. — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, "America Hates the Republicans, and They Don’t Know Why," 17 Dec. 2017 On other issues, Trump has been able to hide his betrayals of the party’s downscale wing in hollow rhetoric. — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "The Opioid Crisis Is a Political Emergency for American Conservatism," 26 Oct. 2017 Williamson has earned praise for attacking the conservative fetishization of downscale white culture, but his underlying argument is not original. — Sarah Jones, New Republic, "Why Conservatives Blame Poverty on the Poor," 25 Oct. 2017 Established in 1983 as a slightly downscale version of Ralph Lauren, the family-run business soon sold jeans, hats, sweaters, jackets and suits through glossy mail-order catalogues, delivered to several million doorsteps some 14 times each year. — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, "Arthur Cinader, founder of preppy fashion powerhouse J. Crew, dies at 90," 18 Oct. 2017 In the Tory dream, Labour would remain hopelessly divided over the issue of Scottish independence and downscale voters who embraced Brexit would stick around to keep May and her party in power. — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, "What Republicans can learn from the Tory tumble," 9 June 2017 The distance was magnified by the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, which gave wealthy donors rising weight in Republican circles, even amid signs that the party’s downscale voters were demanding more of a voice. — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, "How the G.O.P. Elite Lost Its Voters to Donald Trump," 28 Mar. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'downscale.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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downscale
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