TO BRING DOWN

Definition: TO BRING DOWN

TO BRING DOWN

1. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO BRING DOWN

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Final inspection of a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage assembly. America's war program requires increased production of these precision instruments of protection, designed to bring down the best-armoured, the fa. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

There is a lot of room for growth, but for now U.S. companies will need to come up with ways to bring down prices. (references)

Additionally, Singapore has a number of programs on IPR and is working to bring down the piracy rate. The government has implemented enforcement measures to curb fraudulent activity on the Internet, such as sale of unlicensed products. (references)

Economic History

China

Price caps/controls and a reimbursement list are also designed to bring down costs. (references)

Guyana

The introduction of private banks has provided much-needed competition and helped to bring down interest rates which are prohibitively high for many borrowers. (references)

India

Package sizes are being reduce to bring down the psychological price barrier and make the products being sold through the direct selling channel appear more economical. (references)

Human Rights

Malaysia

The judge greatly restricted the scope of Anwar's defense (on occasions during the trial, the judge explicitly said that he did not care if there was a conspiracy to bring down Anwar) and tolerated improper activities by the police and prosecutors. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

Central Bank policy is to bring down real interest rates slowly and reduce the spread between deposit and loan rates. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "TO BRING DOWN": To bring down the house. Additional references.

Arabic 

انزل (decrease). (various references)

Chinese 

降低 (to lower, to reduce). (various references)

German

herunterbringen (bring down, ruin), abschießen (discharge, fire, fire off, kick off, knock out, launch, let off, loose off, pick off, shoot down, shoot in, shoot off, to launch). (various references)

Hungarian

leszállít (cheapen, reduce, to ax, to cut down, to pull in, to put down, to send down), lehoz (bring down), legyengít (enfeeble, to enfeeble, to pull down, to waste, to weaken, weaken), időbeli pontig levezet, időbeli pontig elbeszél, elejt (drop, let fall, to account for, to drop, to let fall, to let slip, to throw out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

討ち止める (to kill, to shoot to death, to slay), �"ち留める (to kill, to shoot to death, to slay), �"ち止める (to kill, to shoot to death, to slay), �"ち下ろす , �'�ち止める (to kill, to shoot to death, to slay), �'す (to beat, to blow down, to cheat, to defeat, to fell, to kill, to knock down, to leave unpaid, to overthrow, to ruin, to throw down, to trip up), 仕留める (to kill), 切り出す (to begin to talk, to break the ice, to broach, to cut, to cut and carry off, to quarry). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たおす (to beat, to blow down, to cheat, to defeat, to fell, to kill, to knock down, to leave unpaid, to overthrow, to ruin, to throw down, to trip up), きりい� す (to begin to talk, to break the ice, to broach, to cut, to cut and carry off, to quarry), きり� す (to begin to talk, to break the ice, to broach, to cut, to cut and carry off, to quarry), しとめる (to kill), うちおろす, うちとめる (to kill, to shoot to death, to slay). (various references)

Pig Latin

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2. ed. (various references)

ava-baraiti. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bringdown.

-3 letters: brooding, browning, drowning, twinborn.

-4 letters: biotron, bonding, booting, bridoon, downing, droning, ingrown, nonword, rooting, trowing, wonting, woodbin, wooding, wording.

-5 letters: boding, boning, bonito, booing, boring, bowing, doting, dowing, drongo, godown, godwit, gonion, inborn, indoor, intown, intron, noting, notion, orbing, owning, robing, ronion, rowing, toning, toroid, towing, trigon, trogon, wonton, wooing.

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