scale back

verb

1. adverb to reduce or make a reduction in the level of activity, extent, numbers, etc

Example Sentences

The soaring costs have prompted the states to scale back some of their ambitions.

From BBC

“We can further scale back the scope of phase one, for example by connecting Riga airport at a later stage,” said Andris Kulbergs, who chairs a Latvian parliamentary committee investigating the project.

From BBC

U.S. officials applied unusually strong pressure on Israel to scale back on its targets, according to people familiar with the talks.

From Los Angeles Times

GOP positions on housing this election cycle have largely ranged from oppositional, in the case of Project 2025 proposals to scale back federal affordable housing programs and weaken tenant protections, to ambivalent, in the case of the Trump campaign's promises to reduce costs by defeating inflation and stopping "the unsustainable invasion of illegal aliens which is driving up housing costs."

From Salon

He said he’s had to take one-third of his family’s farmland out of production, and expects to scale back further, which will force him to lay off employees.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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