喜樂美語
  1. 1vB2/ˈdaʊnsaɪz/縮編；裁員

    If a company or organization downsizes, it employs fewer people so it can spend less money.

    示範例句 · Example

    The toy shop near school plans to downsize its workforce next month.

    逐字學校附近的玩具店計畫下個月縮編它的人力。

    「downsize」核心意思是「公司或組織把自己變小」——通常是少用一些人，好省下費用。核心畫面可以想成「把公司的大小往下調」：downsize the workforce、the company is downsizing、downsize from…to… 都像從這條線長出來。中文常說「縮編」或「裁員」。跟 lay off：lay off 是請走員工；downsize 是公司整體變小。跟 scale down：scale down 也可指計畫或預算變小；downsize 多半特指少用一些人。

    常見搭配

    • downsize the workforce

      縮減人力／縮編員工

      employ fewer workers in a company or organization

      The factory may downsize the workforce after the quiet season.

    • the company is downsizing

      公司正在縮編

      the company is making itself smaller by employing fewer people

      News said the company is downsizing to spend less money.

    • downsize from … to …

      從…縮編到…

      become smaller in number, from one size to a smaller size

      The club downsized from twelve members to eight.

    • downsize operations / a department

      縮編業務／部門

      make a part of a business smaller by using fewer people

      They downsized the after-school office to two helpers.

    • plan / need to downsize

      計畫／必須縮編

      intend or have to make a company smaller to cut costs

      Small shops sometimes need to downsize when sales fall.

    • downsizing (noun)

      縮編（名詞）

      the act or process of making a company smaller by cutting staff

      During the downsizing, the team shared jobs more carefully.

    意思相近

    cut backscale downreduceshrinkstreamline

    用法接近

    lay offrestructurecut jobsrightsize

core核心畫面

Picture a company deliberately making itself smaller — fewer desks, fewer people on the payroll — because the smaller shape costs less to run. Downsize is that planned shrinking, described from the company's side rather than from the side of the people who leave.

可以想成：一家公司刻意把自己變小——桌子少了、薪水名單短了——因為小一點比較養得起。downsize 講的就是這個有計畫的縮小。值得注意的是它站的位置：這個字是從公司的角度描述規模的變化，離開的人在句子裡通常不出現，所以讀新聞時常要自己補上那一面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

過去式 downsized過去分詞 downsized-ing downsizing三單 downsizes

意思相近

cut backscale downreduceshrinkstreamline

用法接近

lay offrestructurecut jobsrightsize

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

downsizeverb/ˈdaʊnsaɪz/

  • 1

    To reduce in size or number.

    • Joe and Edna moved to a bungalow after deciding to downsize when the children had left home.
    • The company chose to downsize by laying off half of its workers.
  • 2

    To reduce the workforce of.

    • They downsized the division by offering attractive early-retirement packages and selling off an office building.
  • 3

    To terminate the employment of.

    • Joe got downsized and became a plumber.

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