Synonyms for reduction
rɪˈdʌk ʃənre·duc·tion

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1. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   increase, promotion, expansion, elevation, oxidation

2. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   oxidation, promotion, increase, expansion, elevation

3. reductionnoun

   A 5% reduction in robberies

   Antonyms:
   expansion, elevation, promotion, oxidation, increase

4. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   promotion, elevation, oxidation, expansion, increase

5. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   elevation, oxidation, increase, promotion, expansion

6. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   promotion, elevation, increase, expansion, oxidation

7. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   promotion, expansion, elevation, oxidation, increase

8. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   expansion, oxidation, promotion, elevation, increase

9. reductionnoun

   Antonyms:
   increase, oxidation, elevation, promotion, expansion

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1. reduction

   Synonyms:
   diminution, contraction, decrease, abatement

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1. decrease, diminution, reduction, step-downnoun

   the act of decreasing or reducing something

   Synonyms:
   reducing, lessening, simplification, decrease, decrement, drop-off, step-down, decline, diminution

2. reduction, reducingnoun

   any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

   Synonyms:
   simplification, decrease, reducing, step-down, diminution

3. reduction, simplificationnoun

   the act of reducing complexity

   Synonyms:
   simplification, decrease, reducing, step-down, diminution

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Chemical Reaction

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   conversion, resolution, transmutation

2. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   diminution, contraction, decrease, abridgment, lessening, retrenchment, abatement, decrement, curtailment, lowering

3. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   depression, detrusion, abasement, lowering

4. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, conquest, mastery, subdual, victory over

5. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Math.) resolution, solution

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1. reductionnoun

   Synonyms:
   diminution, abatement, minimization, decrement, debasement, subjugation, subjection, conquest, subdual, overthrow

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1. List of paraphrases for "reduction":

   reduce, reducing, decrease, reduced, reductions, alleviation, abatement, decline, cut, downsizing, mitigation, drawdown, lowering, fight, réduction, drop, cutting, curtailment, struggle, narrowing, minimization, diminution, cuts, shortening, fall, lower, relief, decreased, decreasing, shrinking, reduces, markdown, rundown, cutback, control, lessening, attenuation, limitation, minimizing, discount

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How to use reduction in a sentence?

1. Ben Hemingway:

   Community level disaster risk reduction is as easy as giving people good information, basic skills to make their traditional structures more safe and to know what to do in the immediate aftermath, it saves lives and gives us time as the international community responds.

2. Harold Hamm:

   While awaiting this recovery, we have elected to maintain our current level of activity and plan to defer adding rigs in 2015, this translates to a $600 million reduction in our 2015 capex budget, resulting in a revised 2015 capex budget of $4.6 billion.

3. Jason Pride:

   Manufacturing PMI's are a good gauge of economic growth and have risen materially in the last year, coupled with the ambitious balance sheet reduction plan, monetary policy tightening could prove a larger headwind than anticipated. Normalizing monetary policy is a good thing, but the Fed should be careful of the pace.

4. Sergey Shapkhaev:

   Microorganisms also play a vital role in 'cleaning up' the lake’s water after the inflow of rivers, a reduction in their numbers might affect the water quality.

5. Eric Harley:

   The progress of the project has in fact followed that prediction. And in fact we have over the course of 4, 5 generations seen a progressive reduction in striping, and lately an increase in the brown background color showing that our original idea was in fact correct.