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Definition of scale-down in English English dictionary
- To reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion
- To reduce the cost of a process, or the amount spent on something
- To purchase or sell a scale down means to buy or sell at regular price intervals in a declining market To buy or sell on scale up means to buy or sell at regular price intervals as the market advances
- vb
- reduce proportionally; "The model is scaled down"
- make smaller; "reduce an image"
- reduce proportionally; "The model is scaled down
- If you scale down something, you make it smaller in size, amount, or extent than it used to be. One Peking factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six The Romanian government yesterday unveiled a new, scaled-down security force. = reduce