reduces (verb)

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• reduce — verb (reduced; reducing) Etymology: Middle English, to lead back, from Latin reducere, from re + ducere to lead more at tow Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to draw together or cause to converge ; consolidate < re …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• stimulate — verb ADVERB ▪ greatly, significantly, strongly ▪ further ▪ effectively ▪ directly ▪ An interest ra …   Collocations dictionary

• shirr — verb a) To make gathers in textiles by drawing together parallel threads. But her favorite way to express their simplicity is to shirr them. Its an old fashioned technique that essentially means baking an egg. In her version, the eggs in ramekins …   Wiktionary

• downsize — verb (I, T) if a company or organization downsizes, or downsizes its operations, it reduces the number of people it employs in order to reduce costs downsizing noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• reduce — [[t]rɪdju͟ːs, AM du͟ːs[/t]] ♦♦ reduces, reducing, reduced 1) VERB If you reduce something, you make it smaller in size or amount, or less in degree. [V n] It reduces the risks of heart disease... [V n] Consumption is being reduced by 25 per cent …   English dictionary

• Glossary of cue sports terms — The following is a glossary of traditional English language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom (or carambole) billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool (pocket… …   Wikipedia

• hedge — (1) Verb To reduce risk or behavior that reduces risk from future price movements. (2) Noun A transaction undertaken to reduce risk by offsetting the risk in another transaction. The risk in one position is hedged by counterbalancing it with the… …   Financial and business terms

• Cultural views of love — Persian Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me. Look what happens with a Love like that, It lights the whole Sky. Iranian ( Persian ) Poet and Mystic, HafezRumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam are just symbols of the passion… …   Wikipedia

• compensate — [[t]kɒ̱mpənseɪt[/t]] compensates, compensating, compensated 1) VERB To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost means to pay them money or give them something to replace that money or those things. [V n for n] The official… …   English dictionary

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• Brazilian Portuguese — (Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil; pt BR) is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants[1] of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States,… …   Wikipedia