Illustration: At the packing bench of a small Japanese pottery shop, an employee transfers a wrapped teacup from an enormous shipping carton into a much smaller box with a snug protective insert. The abandoned carton sits beside a conspicuous heap of unnecessary packing paper pulled from around the single cup.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

削さく減げん

sakugen

to reduce, to cut

Example sentences

彼女かのじょは支出ししゅつを徐々じょじょに削減さくげんした。
She pared down her expenditures.
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下院かいんは外国援助がいこくえんじょの予算よさんを削減さくげんした。
The House cut the budget for foreign aid.
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わが社しゃでは生産せいさんを２０％削減さくげんした。
We have cut back production by 20%.
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Kanji in 削減

削plane; sharpenOnサクKunけずる・はつる・そぐ
減dwindle; decreaseOnゲンKunへる・へらす

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