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scale back

verb

  1. adverb to reduce or make a reduction in the level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
“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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Pope Francis, who chose to scale back some of the funerary pomp and ceremony of his predecessors, requested that he be buried at St Mary Major rather than in the crypt of St Peter's basilica - making him the first pope not to be buried in St Peter's for more than a century.

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In the meantime, the sheriff and his team are evaluating how to scale back the workload for those who remain, possibly by dialing back the scope of the agency’s services and figuring out which tasks don’t need to be handled by sworn deputies.

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She was later forced to scale back her acting commitments following a stroke.

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Certain school expenses – physical real estate, equipment, desks, even some staff – are difficult or impossible to scale back on a year-to-year basis, so planning ahead requires accurate headcounts of students for years into the future.

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North Korea had only statred to scale back Covid-19 restrictions in the middle of 2023.

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