REDUCTIONS Synonyms

• a fund of money put by as a reserve

• an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

• the act of abating

• a shortened form of a word or phrase

• shortening something by omitting parts of it

• the temporal property of being cut short

• the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

• a reduction in quantity or rate

• a change downward

• a process of becoming smaller or shorter

• the amount by which something decreases

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket

• an amount or percentage deducted

• something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)

• reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

• the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)

• the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

• the system of production and distribution and consumption

• the efficient use of resources

• frugality in the expenditure of money or resources

• an act of economizing; reduction in cost

• entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense

• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

• process or result of becoming less or smaller

• the amount by which something shrinks

• the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store

• change toward something smaller or lower

• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• a downward slope or bend

• grow worse

• not accept as true

• show unwillingness towards

• grow smaller

• go down

• fall in value

• inflect for number, gender, case, etc.

• a change downward

• a process of becoming smaller or shorter

• the amount by which something decreases

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• change toward something smaller or lower

• the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

• a passage selected from a larger work

• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

• get despite difficulties or obstacles

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• extract by the process of distillation

• separate (a metal) from an ore

• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

• calculate the root of a number

• any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

• loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

• the act of reducing complexity

• an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity

• elimination of superfluous details

• the act of reducing complexity

• the act of decreasing or reducing something