Reduce Reduced Number Speed Bring Verb Rɪˈdjuːs Rɪˈduːs

• reduce speed now (= on a sign).
• giving up smoking reduces the risk of heart disease.
• to reduce costs/numbers
• a reduced rate/price

reduce

Verb Forms

1. to make something less or smaller in size, quantity, price, etc.; to become less or smaller in size, quantity, etc.
• Reduce speed now (= on a sign).
• Giving up smoking reduces the risk of heart disease.
• to reduce costs/numbers
• a reduced rate/price
• They will require car makers to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 30%.
• Costs have been reduced by 20% over the past year.
• The number of employees was reduced from 40 to 25.
• The skirt was reduced to £10 in the sale.
• Towards the coast, the hills gradually reduce in size.
• The number of search engines has reduced substantially over the last few years.

Extra Examples

• Legislation progressively reduced the number of situations in which industrial action could be taken.
• Pollution from the works has been reduced by 70 per cent.
• The price is reduced from 99 cents to 85 cents.
• The risks must be reduced to the absolute minimum.
• We need to reduce the speed slightly.
• The program aims to reduce or eliminate pesticides.
• This could greatly reduce the number of injuries suffered.
• She is trying to reduce the amount of time she spends away from home.
• Regulating traffic will reduce the accident rate significantly.
• Many studios sell ten cards for a reduced rate.
• Yoga can help reduce stress levels.
• It was a tough decision to reduce the size of the workforce.
• The police will be given more resources to reduce violent crime.
2. if you reduce a liquid or a liquid reduces, you boil it so that it becomes less in quantity
3. to lose weight by limiting the amount and type of food that you eat
• a reducing plan
4. to add one or more electrons to a substance or to remove oxygen from a substance
• COMPARE oxidize
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5. the state of being poorer than you were before. People say ‘living in reduced circumstances’ to avoid saying ‘poor’.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin reducere, from re- ‘back, again’ + ducere ‘bring, lead’. The original sense was ‘bring back’ ; this led to ‘bring to a different state’, then ‘bring to a simpler or lower state’ (hence sense (2)); and finally ‘diminish in size or amount’ (sense (1), dating from the late 18th cent.).