Слово англійською: reduce
Дієслово
Переклад reduce українською: зме́ншити (ро́змір), обме́жити (ви́трати), зни́зити, зни́жувати, зби́ти (су́му і т. д.), зни́зити ціну́, зроби́ти зни́жку
Детальний опис
- [transitive, intransitive] to make something less or smaller in size, quantity, price, etc.; to become less or smaller in size, quantity, etc.
- reduce something Reduce speed now (= on a sign).
- Giving up smoking reduces the risk of heart disease.
- to reduce costs/numbers
- a reduced rate/price
- They will require car makers to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 30%.
- reduce something by something Costs have been reduced by 20% over the past year.
- reduce something from something to something The number of employees was reduced from 40 to 25.
- reduce something to something The skirt was reduced to £10 in the sale.
- reduce in something Towards the coast, the hills gradually reduce in size.
- The number of search engines has reduced substantially over the last few years.
- [transitive, intransitive] reduce (something) if you reduce a liquid or a liquid reduces, you boil it so that it becomes less in quantity
- [intransitive] (North American English, informal) to lose weight by limiting the amount and type of food that you eat
- [transitive] reduce something (chemistry) to add one or more electrons to a substance or to remove oxygen from a substance compare oxidize
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin reducere, from re- ‘back, again’ + ducere ‘bring, lead’. The original sense was ‘bring back’ ; this led to ‘bring to a different state’, then ‘bring to a simpler or lower state’ (hence sense (2)); and finally ‘diminish in size or amount’ (sense (1), dating from the late 18th cent.).
Idioms - the state of being poorer than you were before. People say ‘living in reduced circumstances’ to avoid saying ‘poor’.
Phrasal Verbs