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# rightsizing

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

«rightsizing» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (euphemism, business jargon) cutting jobs to make a company smaller, said to be the "right" size. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#m1)
2. making anything the right size for its use, such as rightsizing a computer system or a house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x1)
- After the rightsizing, Mum's office had only six staff. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x2)
- "Rightsizing? That means sacking people," muttered Grandpa. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x3)
- They are rightsizing their house now the kids have left. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x4)
- The company is rightsizing its cloud computers to save money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x5)
- Workers protested against the rightsizing plan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «rightsizing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rightsizing/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«rightsizing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/rightsizing.html) on Mova free.