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[Verb] | "down*size" | \ ˈdau̇n-ˌsīz \
1: to reduce in size; especially : to design or produce in smaller size
2: to fire (employees) for the purpose of downsizing a business
3: to undergo a reduction in size
Origin: 1975 ;
(3) - { cut down } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?
[Verb] | "cut down"
1: to strike down and kill or incapacitate
2: knock down
3: to remodel by removing extras or unwanted furnishings and fittings
Origin: 1571 ;
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(1) - { down to size } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?
[Idiom] | "down to size"
1: —used with cut, bring, etc., to refer to making someone realize that he or she is not as powerful and important as he or she thought
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[ "downsize" ]
1: To reduce the size of company by firing employees, usually with the intention of compromising for something else.
* e.g., ... The bastards fired me because they plan to downsize just to increase profits.
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[ "downsizing" ]
1: This is corporate slang for sacking workers, used to avoid actually admitting that this is what you're doing.
* e.g., ... The company is committed to a long-term project of downsizing and restructuring in response to changes in the world market.
[ "downsizing" ]
2: Workers beware! They think they can stop us fighting back by using these kinds of words so we don't figure out what they're up to until it's too late.
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[ "Downsize" ]
1: When your ex starts dating someone that is or looks much younger than you are , similar to downgrading when your ex dates someone of lesser value than you
* e.g., ... "He had the nerve to downsize after breaking up with me! She looks like she's twelve and can't do a split on the dick imo"
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[ "Downsizing" ]
1: A discreet way of rich people saying if they keep living in their residence they will go broke.
* e.g., ... “We’ve been avoiding downsizing for years, and now that the children have moved out, we should find a romantic hideaway.”
# 5 - { Debbie Downsize:3947131 }
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[ "Debbie Downsize" ]
1: Someone who is always talking about the potential for being laid off, and tries to get others to be worried with her. A variation on the term Debbie Downer from Saturday Night Live.
* e.g., ... Johnny: Man JT is always talking about layoffs. It's starting to make me worry!
Sloan: I know, he is such a Debbie Downsize.
# 6 - { Facebook Downsize:3908262 }
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[ "Facebook Downsize" ]
1: Verb.
* e.g., ... Because Bob only knows 200 of his 1,000 facebook friends, Bob decided to Downsize his Facebook.
[ "Facebook Downsize" ]
2: 1) To delete (defriend) friends on your Facebook profile that you do not know or hardly know.
* e.g., ... John facebook downsized his profile and he now only has fifty friends compared to his original six hundred.
# 7 - { Facebook Downsizing:6408355 }
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[ "Facebook Downsizing" ]
1: Used as an alternate for defriending people off of Facebook.
action verb: The act of defriending a large group of people from one's Facebook because of a number of reasons (i.e. removing an ex, people you don't talk to any more, that random from the party last night, etc).
verb: to downsize one's Facebook friends
* e.g., ... Tom: I decided to Facebook downsize after each school year.
Jerry: Yeah, I did some Facebook downsizing after I broke up with that whore Stacy. I didn't need her sorority Facebook stalking me anymore.
# 8 - { Upside-Downsized:5035289 }
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[ "Upside-Downsized" ]
1: When your life is turned upside down and crap really starts hitting the fan due to a job loss caused by downsizing or out-sourcing.
* e.g., ... "Do you see how John has lost control and has really been"rusting his windpipe"(drinking a lot) since his life has been turned upside-downsized after losing his job?
# 9 - { Michigan downsizer:6123727 }
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[ "Michigan downsizer" ]
1: When a woman binds a man to a bed completely nude, she excites the man to full erection of the penis. She places a blindfold over his eyes. Using her tube of red lipstick, draws concentric circles to create a target using his tip as the center. She proceeds to downsize his penis by ferociously beating the tip of his dick.
* e.g., ... Dave: Hey Carl I forgot, how big is your penis?
Carl: Well now it is 3 inches.
Dave: What do you mean 'now?'
Carl: It used to be 5 inches but last night my girlfriend gave me the Michigan downsizer.
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[ "downsizer" ]
1: A guy who entices a girl to go out with him using the pretense of a really cool date and once she says yes switches it out for something lame or cheap.
* e.g., ... He invited me to a condo on the beach for the weekend but when I said yes he switched it to hanging out at his house and going to the lake... what a downsizer!
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