pare down en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, transitive) To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process.
As companies keep paring down their delivery times – from two days to a day to two hours to an hour – longer stretches of the last mile will have to run through urban territory.
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pared down | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| pared down | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| paring down | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| pares down | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Translations (12)
cs zredukovat (to reduce by paring) · mi runa (to reduce by paring) · cs osekat (to reduce by paring) · cs snížit (to reduce by paring) · de beschneiden (to reduce by paring) · cs ořezat (to reduce by paring) · pl zmniejszać (to reduce by paring) · pl zredukować (to reduce by paring) · pl zmniejszyć (to reduce by paring) · pl redukować (to reduce by paring) · sv skära ner (to reduce by paring) · ru обстру́гивать (to reduce by paring)