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Another word for reduction

Noun

  1. The act or process of decreasing

    2. See also:

    increase

  2. The act or an instance of demoting

    3. See also:

    rise

  3. A lowering in price or value

    4. See also:

    money

    increase

  4. An amount deducted

    5. See also:

    increase

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Sentence Examples

  • As prepared by the reduction of the oxide it is a grey powder.

  • The result is, on the one hand, a clearing away of much fantastic phylogeny, on the other, an enormous reduction of the supposed gaps between groups.

  • And yet, didn't clinical words like selective reduction and gestational carrier mask the facts?

  • Selective reduction, for starters...

  • The anticipations as to the increase of messages that would result from the reduction of rates were fully realized.

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