pare down

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pare down (third-person singular simple present pares down, present participle paring down, simple past and past participle pared down)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process.
    • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian[1]:
      As companies keep paring down their delivery times – from two days to a day to two hours to an hour – longer stretches of the last mile will have to run through urban territory.

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