引き下げ・引下げ|ひきさげhikisage[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounreduction; cut
   公定歩合こうていぶあいの引き下ひきさげは産業界さんぎょうかいを苦くるしめてきた厳きびしい金融きんゆう逼迫ひっぱくを緩和かんわするだろうと期待きたいされている。↗

   The bank rate cut is expected to relieve the severe financial squeeze that has hit industry.

• Synonym削減さくげんNeutralUsed for cutting budgets, staff and similar; 「引き下げ」 centers on lowering prices and interest rates.
• SynonymカットNeutralA loanword for cutting or trimming, as in 「コストカット」; 「引き下げ」 centers on lowering numerical values.
• Synonym減額げんがくNeutralSpecifically about reducing a monetary amount; 「引き下げ」 centers on lowering ratios and standards.
• Synonym低減ていげんWrittenWritten/formal prose, used for lowering costs, emissions and the like; 「引き下げ」 centers on prices and interest rates.
• Related減少げんしょうNeutralFor quantities getting smaller, whether naturally or by design; 「引き下げ」 is specifically a deliberate downward adjustment of prices, interest rates and the like.
• Related縮小しゅくしょうNeutralAbout shrinking in scale or size; 「引き下げ」 centers on adjusting a numerical value downward.
• Antonym引き上げひきあげNeutralThe antonym: where 「引き下げ」 lowers, this raises or increases.

Use 「引き下げ」 for deliberately lowering prices, interest rates or standards, as in 「金利引き下げ」. For quantities decreasing, use 「減少」; for cutting budgets, 「削減」; for reducing a sum of money, 「減額」. The antonym is 「引き上げ」.

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1. 引き下ひきさげること。