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trade down

verb

  1. intr, adverb to sell a large or relatively expensive house, car, etc, and replace it with a smaller or less expensive one
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Exchange for something of lower value or price, as in They bought a smaller boat, trading down for the sake of economy . Similarly, trade up means “make an exchange for something of higher value or price,” as in They traded up to a larger house . [First half of 1900s]
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Example Sentences

Chemmis, the city of Pan, retained its celebrity in the woollen trade down to the conquest of Egypt by the Romans.

There's no reason why we shouldn't get the cottage trade down at the Neck, and all along shore.

They were resting idle, the trade down the Mississippi below St. Louis having been cut off by the war.

Some hypnotists "trade down" symptoms by replacing a serious symptom with a minor one, while others just remove the symptom.

It's all there in the run, and that means he's keepin it to trade down among the 'Groups.'

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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