downsize是什么意思？

downsize

英[ˈdaʊnsaɪz] 美['daʊnsaɪz]

• vt. 以较小尺寸设计（或制造），缩小（汽车等的）外部尺寸；

第三人称单数：downsizes;

过去式：downsized;

过去分词：downsized;

现在分词：downsizing;

名词：downsizing;

例句

• The company chose to downsize and more fully utilize the remaining workers. 公司决定缩小规模,并更加充分地用好余下的工人.
• He will downsize the executive board of the three divisions. 他将缩小三家公司的执行董事会.
• Sales have decreased so much that they need to downsize. 销售业绩减少很多,所以他们必须缩小规模.
• And as businesses decentralize and downsize, information systems follow suit. 并且随着企业的分散化和小规模化, 信息系统也产生同样的变化.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  使精简;使缩小;使小型化
  To downsize something such as a business or industry means to make it smaller.
  例句
  American manufacturing organizations have been downsizing their factories. 美国制造商们一直在缩小他们工厂的规模。 ...today's downsized economy. 当今规模变小的经济

行业词典

• 计算机： 【动】小型化；向下适化；