English-French translations for reduce

• réduire
  Nous devons tout mettre en œuvre pour réduire cette distance. We must ensure that this gap is reduced.
  Notre travail consiste donc à réduire les écarts. Our job then is to reduce these differences.
  Nous voulons les réduire de 20 %. We want to reduce that by 20%.
• diminuer
  Comment faire pour diminuer le chômage? How do we reduce unemployment?
  Tout d'abord, nous devons diminuer la domination du marché. Firstly, we must reduce market dominance.
• abaisser
  Nous devons abaisser le seuil des ressources financières et le coût des visas. We should reduce the financial resources threshold and the cost of visas.
  Depuis quand abaisser les frais de déplacement des catégories les mieux payées est une priorité politique ? Is it a political priority to reduce the travel expenses of the highest paid?
  J'entends par là réduire la congestion, abaisser les seuils et améliorer l'accessibilité. The programme should also look to reduce congestion, lower thresholds and increase accessibility.
• annuler
  Je terminerai par la question suivante: sommes-nous prêts, au niveau international, à réduire ou à annuler la dette d'Haïti? I will finish with a question: are we prepared, internationally, to reduce or cancel Haiti's debt?
• démarquer
• éliminer
  Cela pourrait réduire le travail non déclaré ou même l'éliminer totalement. This could reduce undeclared work or even eliminate it altogether.
  Nous devons faire tout ce que nous pouvons pour atténuer et même éliminer ce type d'intolérance. We must do everything we can to reduce and even abolish this type of intolerance.
  Cependant, nous devrions parler de la nécessité de réduire les prises accessoires et d'éliminer les rejets. However, we should refer to the need to reduce by-catch and eliminate discards.
• limiter
  Mais il faut bien se limiter un jour. However, eventually the dose will have to be reduced.
  La prévention de la criminalité ne saurait se limiter à des échanges de meilleures pratiques. Crime prevention cannot be reduced to the exchange of best practices.

Definition of reduce

• To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower
• To lose weight
• To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture
• To bring to an inferior state or condition
• To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off
• To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen
• To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value
• To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
• To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment
• To strike off the payroll
• To translate (a book, document, etc

Examples

• to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc
• to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
• to reduce a province or a fort
• to reduce a city to ashes
• It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing
• a book reduced into English

Related words

• reducer
• reduced
• MapReduce
• reduce diminish
• reduce by a half
• reduce to ashes
• reduce to dust
• reduce|reducing
• reduced-fat milk