scale down


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Verb1.scale down - reduce proportionally; "The model is scaled down"
proportion - adjust in size relative to other things
rescale - establish on a new scale
scale up - increase proportionally; "scale up the model"
2.scale down - make smaller; "reduce an image"
shrink, reduce - reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
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w>scale down

vt sep (lit)verkleinern; (fig)verringern; a sort of scaled-down Parthenoneine Art Parthenon im Kleinformat
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BANKING AND CREDIT NEWS-June 18, 2019--Deutsche Bank to scale down its US equities business
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'It is obvious that when you scale down, the unit cost goes up leaving a smaller profit per unit.
Speaking at a press conference, Ali Sadpara, who has honour of scaling 7 more than 8000 meters peaks, said that climbing mountains is not an easy task and it takes life threat to scale down mountains.
The shop stayed open for a couple of years before the pair decided to scale down the business.
Foxconn (HNHPF) has plans to scale down the original 10.5 LCD fab in Wisconsin and alternatively establish a 6G line there, according to DigiTimes, citing industry sources.
If this is simply a cost- cutting exercise then I suggest before casting their votes they look no further than to scale down these infernal-sized magazines and return to the original pocket size format which provided the basic footballing information.
said they do not have any plans to scale down or cancel any scheduled exercises.
Private cloud storage can scale out to meet the demands for additional storage capacity, but can it scale down to meet the needs of small and medium-sized organizations that don't have petabytes of data?
RIL will continue to scale down capital expenditure (capex) for its struggling shale gas business in the US.