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/rɪˈdjuːs/ 
| present tense | |
| I/you/we/they | reduce |
| he/she/it | reduces |
| present participle | reducing |
| past tense | reduced |
| past participle | reduced |
- 1to make something smaller or less in size, amount, importance etc
Try to reduce the amount of fat in your diet.
reduce something by something:The workforce will be reduced by around 30 per cent.
reduce something from something to something:It has reduced its size from about 135,000 employees to 75,000.
Her lawyers got the charge reduced from murder to manslaughter.
reduce something to the minimum:Risks must be reduced to the absolute minimum.
reduce something in size/number etc:Their army will be drastically reduced in size and influence.
greatly/significantly reduce something:The new systems should significantly reduce the amount of paper we use.
Collocations: reduce
▪ considerably, dramatically, drastically, gradually, greatly, sharply, significantly, substantially
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