{
    "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.)."
}