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dumbsize

verb

Etymology

Blend of dumb + downsize.

  1. derived from *sed-✻
  2. derived from assideo
  3. derived from cise
  4. inherited from syse
  5. prefixed as downsize — “down + size”
  6. compounded as dumbsize — “dumb + downsize”

Definitions

  1. To reduce the number of employees in a business without regard to organizational…

    To reduce the number of employees in a business without regard to organizational efficiency, such that its operations become unprofitable or inefficient.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dumbsize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA