Downsizing

What do we mean by downsizing?

To reduce in size or number.

To reduce the workforce of.

To terminate the employment of.

This is corporate slang for sacking workers, used to avoid actually admitting that this is what you're doing. Workers beware! They think they can stop us fighting back by using these kinds of words so we don't figure out what they're up to until it's too late. Urban Dictionary

To reduce the size of company by firing employees, usually with the intention of compromising for something else. Urban Dictionary

When your ex starts dating someone that is or looks much younger than you are , similar to downgrading when your ex dates someone of lesser value than you Urban Dictionary

A discreet way of rich people saying if they keep living in their residence they will go broke. Urban Dictionary

Someone who is always talking about the potential for being laid off, and tries to get others to be worried with her. A variation on the term Debbie Downer from Saturday Night Live. Urban Dictionary

Verb. 1) To delete (defriend) friends on your Facebook profile that you do not know or hardly know. Urban Dictionary

Used as an alternate for defriending people off of Facebook. action verb: The act of defriending a large group of people from one's Facebook because of a number of reasons (i.e. removing an ex, people you don't talk to any more, that random from the party last night, etc). verb: to downsize one's Facebook friends Urban Dictionary

When your life is turned upside down and crap really starts hitting the fan due to a job loss caused by downsizing or out-sourcing. Urban Dictionary

When a woman binds a man to a bed completely nude, she excites the man to full erection of the penis. She places a blindfold over his eyes. Using her tube of red lipstick, draws concentric circles to create a target using his tip as the center. She proceeds to downsize his penis by ferociously beating the tip of his dick. Urban Dictionary

A guy who entices a girl to go out with him using the pretense of a really cool date and once she says yes switches it out for something lame or cheap. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to downsizing:
downsizing, downswing, downsitting.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word downsizing:
outsourcing, realignment, restructuring, cadillac, bureaucracy, workforce, closure, recession, atari, reorganization, chevrolet, employees, reduction, unemployment, eliminating, cutting, cuts, bankruptcy, closing, eliminate, federation, reducing, employee, jobs, automobile, replacing, bases, abolished, legislative, trend, corporate, pounds, decline, reduced, cars, inches, ford, fuel, usage, engine, lincoln, eliminated, agencies, contracts, economy, smaller, merged, essentially, reduce, costs, employment, relocated, staff, assembly, cold, platform, proposal, effectively, labor, base, brigade, resulted.

Words that rhyme with downsizing:
advertising, patronizing, tantalizing, rising, comprising, enterprising, mesmerizing, uprising, merchandising, unsurprising, analyzing, compromising, utilizing, surprising, proselytizing, polarizing, sizing, emphasizing, organizing, antagonizing, exercising, demoralizing, devising, self-aggrandizing, jeopardizing, arising, advising, aggrandizing, publicizing, appetizing, scrutinizing, galvanizing, revising, synthesizing, satirizing, verbalizing, energizing, realizing, socializing, mobilizing, supervising, criticizing, stabilizing, chastising, dehumanizing, despising, apologizing, disguising, unappetizing, sanitizing, rationalizing, destabilizing, normalizing, prioritizing, recognizing, lysing, oxidizing, moralizing, harmonizing, revitalizing, finalizing, fantasizing, generalizing, immunizing, synchronizing, womanizing, capitalizing, maximizing, amortizing, authorizing, minimizing, specializing, summarizing, democratizing, temporizing, alphabetizing, centralizing, improvising, wising, fraternizing, prizing, characterizing, demonizing, neutralizing, editorializing, memorizing, monopolizing, visualizing, digitizing, customizing, ionizing, theorizing, immobilizing, paralyzing, modernizing, standardizing, subsidizing, tranquilizing, crystallizing, stigmatizing.

Adjectives that are often used to describe downsizing:
corporate, organizational, significant, massive, major, military, recent, substantial, further, radical, dramatic, drastic, considerable, organisational, widespread, economic, successful, scale, rapid, federal, extensive, current, severe, subsequent, industrial, gradual, serious, strategic, institutional, effective, continued, collar, painful, overall, ongoing, bureaucratic, continuous, ruthless, continual, necessary, relentless, managerial, constant, administrative, rampant, hormonal, voluntary, impending, frequent, aggressive, neoadjuvant, governmental, inevitable, consequent, firm, driven, indiscriminate, brutal, sector, clonal, planned, intelligent, reactive, orderly, ended, postwar.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective downsizing:
process, effort, trend, efforts, plan, strategy, initiative, program, exercise, environment, phenomenon, period, movement, decisions, programs, decision, era, situation, project, activities, organization, mode, move, effect, plans, campaign, initiatives, literature, operation, activity, measures, economy, company, approach, policy, firm, operations, actions, job, success, frenzy, strategies, levels, context, practices, craze, firms, companies, experiences, binge, crisis, policies, personnel, organisation, bloodbath.

Words that sound like downsizing:
downsizing, downswing, downsize, downsized, demising, incising, dancing, denying, despising, disguising, deceasing, doomsaying, diseasing, ionizing, ionising, denizen, dinesen, dances, decisive, dancin, deciding, downing, downstream, desiring, downside, donating, devising, dunces, dousing, disposing, downsides, dowsing, dancin', denoting, demonizing, do nothing, danskin, demonising, dance song, downspin, do-nothing.