pare down

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

pare down (third-person singular simple present pares down, present participle paring down, simple past and past participle pared down)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process.
   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     As companies keep paring down their delivery times – from two days to a day to two hours to an hour – longer stretches of the last mile will have to run through urban territory.

Translations

to reduce by paring

• Czech: osekat pf, ořezat pf, zredukovat (cs) pf, snížit (cs) pf
• German: beschneiden (de)
• Maori: runa
• Russian: обстру́гивать (ru) n or impf (obstrúgivatʹ)
• Swedish: skära ner