Synonyms for reduction
rɪˈdʌk ʃənre·duc·tion

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1. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   increase, promotion, expansion, elevation, oxidation

2. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   oxidation, promotion, increase, expansion, elevation

3. reductionnoun

   A 5% reduction in robberies

   Antonyms:
   expansion, elevation, promotion, oxidation, increase

4. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   promotion, elevation, oxidation, expansion, increase

5. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   elevation, oxidation, increase, promotion, expansion

6. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   promotion, elevation, increase, expansion, oxidation

7. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   promotion, expansion, elevation, oxidation, increase

8. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   expansion, oxidation, promotion, elevation, increase

9. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   increase, oxidation, elevation, promotion, expansion

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1. reduction

   Synonyms:
   diminution, contraction, decrease, abatement

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1. decrease, diminution, reduction, step-downnoun

   the act of decreasing or reducing something

   Synonyms:
   reducing, lessening, simplification, decrease, decrement, drop-off, step-down, decline, diminution

2. reduction, reducingnoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   simplification, decrease, reducing, step-down, diminution

3. reduction, simplificationnoun

   the act of reducing complexity

   Synonyms:
   simplification, decrease, reducing, step-down, diminution

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Chemical Reaction

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   conversion, resolution, transmutation

2. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   diminution, contraction, decrease, abridgment, lessening, retrenchment, abatement, decrement, curtailment, lowering

3. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   depression, detrusion, abasement, lowering

4. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, conquest, mastery, subdual, victory over

5. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Math.) resolution, solution

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1. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   diminution, abatement, minimization, decrement, debasement, subjugation, subjection, conquest, subdual, overthrow

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1. List of paraphrases for "reduction":

   reduce, reducing, decrease, reduced, reductions, alleviation, abatement, decline, cut, downsizing, mitigation, drawdown, lowering, fight, réduction, drop, cutting, curtailment, struggle, narrowing, minimization, diminution, cuts, shortening, fall, lower, relief, decreased, decreasing, shrinking, reduces, markdown, rundown, cutback, control, lessening, attenuation, limitation, minimizing, discount

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1. Harry Theochari:

   A dramatic reduction in the availability of debt finance in the London market means that shipping is increasingly turning to structured finance and private equity, This gives New York a distinct advantage, as it has the largest capital markets in the world and far greater access to private equity than any other global financial centre.

2. Peter Wickersham:

   There has been a substantial reduction in the net price of both of these drugs just in the past few weeks, so sometimes it pays not to go first.

3. Scott Kennedy:

   Given the recent spate of AML-related (anti-monopoly law) cases against foreign firms, the regulations about the banking sector, and the reduction of foreign firms' products on government procurement lists, there is good reason for foreign firms to be highly concerned.

4. Craig Fehr:

   We are seeing markets rally on the premise that while the situation in China particularly with Evergrande is not going away, the outcome is not perhaps going to be as severe or prompt some form of contagion that was originally feared, you combine that with the fact that the tone that the Fed struck yesterday at its meeting suggests that while a reduction in stimulus is certainly coming, the Fed is not particularly eager to start tightening policy dramatically in the near term.

5. Tourism Minister Lazaro Nyalandu:

   Were they killed or did they move out of the observed area? Usually when such a large animal reduction is observed, there are a comparable number of carcasses also observed. That was not the case here.