pare down

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pare something down (to something)

to cut someone down to something or a smaller size. I will have to pare the budget down to the minimum. I hope we can pare down the budget. After much arguing, we pared it down.

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China Mobile has been keen to seek chips that carry various functions in a package to pare down cost of mobile phones built on the mainland-led TD-SCDMA technology. China Mobile, MediaTek said to team up on TD-SCDMA front by The Taiwan Economic News Plans to pare down spending next year, in the face of falling revenues from betting operators, were originally approved on a majority vote, in which board members Nic Coward, the British Horseracing Authority chief executive, and Racehorse Owners' Association president Paul Dixon were on the same side, though for different reasons. Racecourses urge Levy Board not to dip into reserves by The Racing Post (London, England) You can pare down to 10 articles of clothing that are easy to layer and mix and match. Six Ways to Save Money by Moj News Agency (Tehran, Iran)			pant for air pant out paper paper over paper over the cracks paper trail par par excellence par for the course parade parade by parade in front of parade out paradise parcel parcel out parcel up pardon pardon for pardon me Pardon me for breathing! Pardon me for living! Pardon my French Pardon my French! pare pare down pare off park park it Parkinson's law parlay into parley with parrot parrot-fashion part part and parcel part company part from part hair part over part with partake partake in partake of parted partial to partially sighted participate particular particulars parting			pardoning pardoning pardonment pardons pardons pardons pardons Pardos Pardos PARDS PARDS Pardubice Pardubice Pardubice, Czech Reopublic Pardubice, Czech Reopublic Pardubitz Pardubitz Pardue, Mary Lou pare pare pare pare pare pare Paré Paré Paré Paré Paré pare back pare down pare off pare to the bone pare to the bone pare to the bone Pare, Ambroise Paré, Ambroise PAREB PAREC parecclesion Parecis, Serra dos PARECO pared pared pared pared pared to the bone pared to the bone pared to the bone PAREDA Paredes y Arrillaga, Mariano Paredes, Américo Pareeto Saiteki Parege Parege paregmenon paregoric paregoric paregoric paregoric paregoric elixir

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