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
WHO officials will now assess all the evidence on the pace of spread of the disease before deciding whether to downscale the global alert level.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024
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
Her voice was the downscale wail of an oboe.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
Capex was downscaled 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
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
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
‘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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