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• reduce speed now (= on a sign).
• giving up smoking reduces the risk of heart disease.
• costs have been reduced by 20% over the past year.
• the number of employees was reduced from 40 to 25.

reduce

1. to make something less or smaller in size, quantity, price, etc.
• Reduce speed now (= on a sign).
• Giving up smoking reduces the risk of heart disease.
• 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.
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
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/oxidize
5. the state of being poorer than you were before. People say ‘living in reduced circumstances’ to avoid saying ‘poor’.

Extra Examples

• I noticed that my belly had drastically reduced in size.
• 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.
• Costs have been reduced by 20% over the past year.
• Reduce speed now.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they reduce
• he / she / it reduces
• past simple reduced
• past participle reduced
• -ing form reducing

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.).