reductions
- 1Plural of reduction.
The budget called for spending reductions across several departments.
Successive reductions in interest rates encouraged people to borrow.
Note
A regular plural that appears only where reduction is being counted rather than treated as a process. Cuts in price or spending pluralize easily, and so do a cook's boiled-down sauces, a chemist's separate reactions, and the computer scientist's polynomial-time reductions, each a transformation of one problem into another. When the meaning is the act of reducing in general, English keeps the uncountable singular instead.
reductions is a form of reduction
reduction, noun: The act, process, or result of making something smaller or less in size, amount, or degree. Full entry
- Forms
- reductionreductions plural
- Spelling
- reduction → reductions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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