12 example sentences using reduce.
Reduce used in a sentence
Reduce in a sentence as a verb
I reduced it two times more by $1, and each time they beat my price by a cent or two.
But it does reduce risk and improve the likelihood of deal close once you get to that point.
Clock bending adjusts the display clock frequencies to reduce screen flicker.
I want to reduce my coding time and instead help people get their ideas to market using my resources.
For example, apply it only to the top page at first, and reduce the number of endorsements required for display to 1.
So what I did was reduce my price by a few dollars every hour for one day until everybody was priced under $5.
In fact, Cloudflare have written some software which they claim enables them to reduce their bandwidth, and this software happens to be written in Go.
Legalize it and then spend money and make laws regulating consumption, it would greatly reduce the misery in our corner of the world.
The closer reality is that if the idea has 'legs' then you can expect a series A round that will reduce both of you to 33% and then a series B which takes you to 20% to 25%.
There are at least 3 NGOs who have successfully managed to reduce **** and help the children of prostitutes rehabilitate in better professions.
What the **** I consider driving a car to work to be hardly justifiable at all in our trade, but a 31 year old fire truck is sending a giant **** you to anyone else trying to reduce their carbon emissions.
Similar to employee reward schemes that employees learn to manipulate in a way that is detrimental to the business or cobra bounties intended to reduce the number of snakes in a city leading to backyard cobra farms.
Reduce definitions
cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
See also: trim
make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
See also: shrink
lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
make smaller; "reduce an image"
to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
See also: tighten
put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
See also: abridge foreshorten abbreviate shorten contract
be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
See also: decoct concentrate
cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
See also: concentrate
take off weight
See also: slim slenderize thin