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scale back
verb
- adverb to reduce or make a reduction in the level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
Example Sentences
After a decade, with individual figures in the Class of '92 wanting to scale back their investment, another ownership model was needed.
Business owners warned they would scale back operations or shut down.
Speaking to supporters on Friday, Farage said his party would seek to "reduce excessive expenditure" in local government, and suggested his councillors would scale back local diversity and climate policies.
Starbucks will hire more baristas and scale back plans to roll out automation, the coffee shop giant's chief executive Brian Niccol says.
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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