downscale
Americanadjective
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located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale.
The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
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plain, practical, or inexpensive; not luxurious.
downscale clothing.
adjective
verb
Etymology
Origin of downscale
Example Sentences
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The Atlantic describes the Brightline train as a luxurious ride for high rollers but paints a downscale cast to those who are run over by it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Invented by Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler, Barbie was essentially knocked off from the Lilli doll, a German gag gift for men, based on a comic character in a downscale German tabloid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
Midjourney, the one Jason Allen used, has a feature that allows you to upscale and downscale images.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2022
But downscale customers also spend money on movies and streaming services.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022
He must maintain appearances in keeping with his associations—or drop downscale to meaner opportunities and paltrier prizes.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
The German arms maker downscaled capex to a range of 8% to 9% from 16% of sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The shrinking of device dimensionality, together with the downscaled junction region, render the device fast and energy efficient, resulting in high-performance digital and analog circuits.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2024
If the media company is going away — if it’s being downscaled to a production unit — there’s no need for a network president.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
Because of this, they've downscaled their expectations of what politics can do.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2022
It was smaller, downscaled from the usual 30,000 runners to about 20,000, all of whom had to be vaccinated or recently test negative for the coronavirus.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
Why waste the money to only end up downscaling all of the extra work and not release the series in the Blu-ray format?
From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
It is actually where DeSo and Boeing take their simulations and interconnect them, with Nvidia’s machine learning upscaling, downscaling, translating, and then operating that simulation.
From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2022
And last month, officials announced that they were downscaling from the arena to a much smaller convention center nearby.
From Fox News ● Jul. 17, 2020
To solve this problem, the modelers used a process called downscaling to develop results with much higher spatial resolution — in this case, to grid cells that measured about six kilometers on a side.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2019
‘Nordstrom Local’ locations will be small, neighborhood service stores with no clothing in stock-- “the first downscaling of the department store concept” in the U.S., according to one expert.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2017
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