reduce an allocation
Frequency: 8.012.8 per million words
To make the allocated amount smaller.
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- The government was forced to reduce its allocation of funds to the arts.
- Due to poor sales, the company will reduce the marketing department's budget allocation.
- We have to reduce the allocation of resources to non-critical projects.
- The manager decided it was necessary to reduce the time allocation for each presentation.
- If we don't receive more funding, we will have to reduce the allocation for student scholarships.
- The new policy aims to reduce the allocation of grants to large corporations.
- After a disastrous first quarter, the board voted to reduce the R&D allocation by 20%.
- The international aid agency had to reduce its food allocation per family due to a shortage.
- To improve efficiency, they are considering ways to reduce the server space allocation for old files.
- A proposal was made to reduce the allocation of overtime hours to cut costs.