rightsizing

«rightsizing» in Mova's school dictionary: cutting jobs to make a company smaller, said to be the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (uncountable); verb (present participle of rightsize: rightsize, rightsizes, rightsized, rightsizing)

meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, business jargon) cutting jobs to make a company smaller, said to be the "right" size. tree →

2) making anything the right size for its use, such as rightsizing a computer system or a house. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used by managers to make job cuts sound sensible and good; business jargon, all regions. Like "downsizing", but softer still.

examples

• The firm called it rightsizing, but forty people lost their jobs. tree →
• After the rightsizing, Mum's office had only six staff. tree →
• "Rightsizing? That means sacking people," muttered Grandpa. tree →
• They are rightsizing their house now the kids have left. tree →
• The company is rightsizing its cloud computers to save money. tree →
• Workers protested against the rightsizing plan. tree →

note

Stands for "cutting jobs". The word "right" makes it sound good but it is usually bad for the workers. Compare "downsizing", "restructuring", "streamlining".

In the corpora

• "Rightsizing" is spin for cutting jobs.
• "Efficiency savings" means budget cuts; "streamlining" and "rightsizing" mean cutting jobs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rightsizing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.