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{
"term": "reduce",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "reduce",
"heSheIt": "reduces"
},
"pastSimple": "reduced",
"pastParticiple": "reduced",
"ingForm": "reducing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to make something less or smaller in size, quantity, price, etc.; to become less or smaller in size, quantity, etc.",
"sensetop": "reduce somethingreduce something by somethingreduce something from something to somethingreduce something to somethingreduce in something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Reduce speed now *(= on a sign)*.",
"contextForm": "reduce something"
},
{
"text": "Giving up smoking **reduces the risk** of heart disease."
},
{
"text": "to **reduce costs/numbers**"
},
{
"text": "a **reduced rate/price**"
},
{
"text": "They will require car makers to **reduce emissions** of carbon dioxide by 30%."
},
{
"text": "Costs have been reduced by 20% over the past year.",
"contextForm": "reduce something by something"
},
{
"text": "The number of employees was reduced from 40 to 25.",
"contextForm": "reduce something from something to something"
},
{
"text": "The skirt was reduced to £10 in the sale.",
"contextForm": "reduce something to something"
},
{
"text": "Towards the coast, the hills gradually reduce in size.",
"contextForm": "reduce in something"
},
{
"text": "The number of search engines has reduced substantially over the last few years."
},
{
"text": "Legislation progressively reduced the number of situations in which industrial action could be taken."
},
{
"text": "Pollution from the works has been reduced by 70 per cent."
},
{
"text": "The price is reduced from 99 cents to 85 cents."
},
{
"text": "The risks must be reduced to the absolute minimum."
},
{
"text": "We need to reduce the speed slightly."
},
{
"text": "The program aims to reduce or eliminate pesticides."
},
{
"text": "This could greatly reduce the number of injuries suffered."
},
{
"text": "She is trying to reduce the amount of time she spends away from home."
},
{
"text": "Regulating traffic will reduce the accident rate significantly."
},
{
"text": "Many studios sell ten cards for a reduced rate."
},
{
"text": "Yoga can help reduce stress levels."
},
{
"text": "It was a tough decision to reduce the size of the workforce."
},
{
"text": "The police will be given more resources to reduce violent crime."
}
],
"topics": ["Change, cause and effect", "Shopping", "Money"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["considerably", "dramatically", "drastically"],
"verb + reduce": ["aim to", "attempt to", "seek to"],
"preposition": ["by", "in", "from"],
"phrases": [
"an attempt to reduce something",
"an effort to reduce something",
"measures to reduce something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "if you reduce a liquid or a liquid reduces, you boil it so that it becomes less in quantity",
"sensetop": "reduce (something)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to lose weight by limiting the amount and type of food that you eat",
"labels": "(North American English, informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a reducing plan"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to add one or more electrons to a substance or to remove oxygen from a substance",
"sensetop": "reduce something",
"labels": "(chemistry)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the state of being poorer than you were before. People say ‘living in reduced circumstances’ to avoid saying ‘poor’.",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdjuːs/",
"audio": "re/reduce/reduce__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdjuːsɪz/",
"audio": "re/reduce/reduces__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdjuːst/",
"audio": "re/reduce/reduced__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdjuːsɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/reduce/reducing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈduːs/",
"audio": "re/reduce/reduce__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈduːsɪz/",
"audio": "re/reduce/reduces__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈduːst/",
"audio": "re/reduce/reduced__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈduːsɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/reduce/reducing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin reducere, from re- ‘back, again’ + ducere ‘bring, lead’. The original sense was ‘bring back’ ; this led to ‘bring to a different state’, then ‘bring to a simpler or lower state’ (hence sense (2)); and finally ‘diminish in size or amount’ (sense (1), dating from the late 18th cent.)."
}