Reduction Synonyms, Reduction Antonyms

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Example Sentences

Breast reduction surgery is usually done under general anesthesia.

Deals that grant a reduction in teaching can end up lasting well beyond the reason they were handed out in the first place.

Since construction and related housing industries tend to be labour-intensive, reduction in expenditure here has hurt job growth.

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Breast reduction surgery is usually done under general anesthesia.

Deals that grant a reduction in teaching can end up lasting well beyond the reason they were handed out in the first place.

Since construction and related housing industries tend to be labour-intensive, reduction in expenditure here has hurt job growth.

To prevent the silting, the government launched a livestock reduction program.

The handful of jobs lost from coal and natural gas reduction can be replaced double or triple by burning garbage.

The question is why this reduction in limb size happened.

These batters and doughs contain less fat and sugar, and a minor reduction in baking powder may be all that is needed.

Temporal noise reduction should help in low-light scenarios.

Kimbrough's departure as a reduction in force, saying the deputy chancellor's position was no longer needed.

Its first bail-out gave it three-year loans at punitive interest rates, with no debt reduction.

Those credits could be sold in international carbon markets to developed nations trying to meet reduction targets.

Or what reduction in efficiency would result from removing them.

Still, the wattle and arm-flab reduction in the photos is seductive.

Inconveniently, different products had curves of a different slope and different sources of cost reduction.

By contrast, immigration-delay disease doesn't come with any side effects besides a minor reduction in the ability to sweat.

Fair enough, don't pay for their population reduction.

The result is a reduction in muscle soreness and fatigue.

So, converting your employees to contractors could mean a large reduction in your health care coverage costs.

They urged immediate reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions to try to minimize the potential catastrophe.

Yet no public consensus on a sharp reduction of military outlays exists.

Amazon is hoping that the packaging reduction will eventually result in lowered product prices.

Not so for carbon reduction plans, where the political attractiveness of one scheme versus another is seen as a key benefit.

Ultimately, the researchers are attracted to seagulls for more than drag reduction.

It would be more likely that they would apply the reduction roughly equally to all programs.

The biggest change for processing images is the addition of luminance noise reduction.

But it actually favors only a reduction in the tax rate.

Additionally rising communication between societies and human kind is caused a reduction of violence.

The group refuses to say whether it also favors a reduction of loopholes.

The degree of hippocampal volume reduction correlated with total duration of major depression.

Brazil has made huge strides in poverty reduction and the programme has played a big part.

But the principle that tax reform is a healthy part of deficit reduction is a sound one.

The coalition has enjoyed unexpected success in making the case for deficit reduction.

Noise reduction steps make everyone a good neighbor.

Within two weeks the campus will receive a specific budget reduction figure.

The scope for increasing exports is limited by the process of debt reduction in other rich economies.

Stress reduction can be achieved by exercise, being with family and friends and meditation.

Teeth number reduction is linked to tooth size enlargement.

Lesser changes involve the renaming of creatures, as well as a reduction in the amount of blood and corpses found in the game.

India is planning a major reduction in imported oil this year, a move that will stall economic advancement.

The result has been a devastating reduction in state.

The cats are thriving largely due to a reduction in hunting, coupled with conservation.

The same is true with the other technologies that will be vital to achieving any sizeable reduction of emissions.

Smithsonian should be advocating the reduction of lawns.

The organization calls for economy-wide cuts in greenhouse gases through short- and mid-term reduction targets.

Unlike cork taint, screw cap reduction is not always noticeable.

But the reduction in many traditional language programs is still troubling to some advocates of the humanities.

The task of deficit reduction will fall somewhere in the distant future.

Previous evidence implicated overfishing, linked to a reduction in seaweed grazing.

Hence, the overeating while watching television relates to the reduction in thought and memory as well.

Adjustment couldn't clear up its color problems fully, and its noise reduction created a distracting pulsing effect in some video.

Subsidizing good energy by no means ensures a reduction in the use of bad energy.

Neighborhoods that were once magnets for the homeless and violent criminals have seen a dramatic reduction in crime and violence.

Also, it would be nice to know how many accidents there were in total to be able to judge the significance of the reduction.

There are several examples from nature where organisms have undergone a reduction in size in light of diminished resources.

The mic also features a gain reduction switch so you can adjust the input level to the sound source.

Stronger buildings, improved drainage systems, and a reduction in poverty would help.

In fact, the organisation expects no further reduction in cyclically adjusted deficits in the next two years.

Jacobson argues that policy makers need to take a long hard look at soot reduction.

They considered scenarios of either unchecked greenhouse gas emissions or a global reduction in the rate of emissions growth.

Sixty percent reduction in post-exercise recovery time.

Nearly half a dozen government agencies and programs were threatened with reduction or elimination.

Officials crow at each new speed milestone and each dramatic reduction in intercity-travel times.

Surveys now show a reduction in poaching by children.

The resulting reduction in pressure in the rift allows magma to be forced upward by the weight of the overlying crust and mantle.

The idea is to successfully demonstrate scale reduction so complex optical functions can be included in a single chip.

Our faculty and staff have appreciated the clutter reduction and time and paper saved.

Adult animals rarely die from the infection but do suffer permanent weight reduction and a loss of milk yield.

It promised greater noise reduction and improved sharpness in picture quality.

College students didn't need an increase in lifestyle while their parents experienced a reduction in theirs.

Moderation and risk reduction can and should play a role in all of these activities.

And that power reduction is the key to its use in tablets.

The falls have been largely driven by a reduction in oil and gas extraction.

Crime reduction policies should be based on what works rather than what is politically appealing.

There was an additional reduction for a revised estimate of support.

No rational person believes that serious deficit reduction can be accomplished without any rise in tax revenues.

But a reduction of pollution emissions could spur broader use.

People who criticize him don't talk about the reduction in poverty or improvement in agriculture.

And a reduction in per capita output implies a reduction in standard of living.

These tactics didn't show a significant reduction in pain, deCharms said.

And any reduction in crew size makes a ship more vulnerable to fires and cascading battle damage.

The net result was a large reduction in state revenue.

The resulting reduction in meat consumption would solve the problem.

With the improvement in drinking-water quality came a huge reduction in outbreaks of water-borne disease.

The findings highlight the success of a worldwide reduction in harmful chlorofluorocarbons.

The genetic research indicates that something caused a drastic reduction in human population around one million years ago.

The cost is a reduction of the broader application of its findings and the isolation from others.

With a reduction of the fog, a mature tree's great height becomes a liability.

Global warming is all because of felling of trees and reduction in green cover.

The general anesthetics cause a reduction in nerve transmission at.

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