1986 in reference to companies shedding jobs; earlier (1975) in reference to U.S. automakers building smaller cars and trucks (supposedly a coinage at General Motors), from down (adv.) + size (v.). Related: Downsized; downsizing.
双语例句
1. Sales have decreased so much that they need to downsize.
销售业绩减少很多,所以他们必须缩小规模.
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2. He will downsize the executive board of the three divisions.
他将缩小三家公司的执行董事会.
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3. The company chose to downsize and more fully utilize the remaining workers.
公司决定缩小规模,并更加充分地用好余下的工人.
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4. And as businesses decentralize and downsize, information systems follow suit.
并且随着企业的分散化和小规模化, 信息系统也产生同样的变化.
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5. Free - market reforms have moved governments everywhere to downsize, deregulate, and privatize.
