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
“We had to actually downscale to shooting on a Blackmagic, just a little tiny camera, because we didn’t have money for so many years to keep it going.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
The red-walled first gallery emphasizes naturalistic black-and-white images of everyday life, mostly downscale.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
Natalie's former care agency, Silverbell, told the BBC it was "mortified" by her situation but said it had "no alternative but to downscale our operation".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2022
Her voice was the downscale wail of an oboe.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
The initial news flashes said that 17 people were killed, but that toll was downscaled significantly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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
I’ve streamlined the recipe using a food processor and downscaled it with chicken.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2022
David Price owns Southampton-based DCP Haulage, and said if things did not improve he would have to look at "parking up trucks" or "actually downscaling".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
She had tried everything to keep Tilth operating — selling granola, offering online classes with ingredient kits, running wine specials and downscaling the menu to feature comfort food like mac and cheese.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2021
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
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