Scaleback

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any member of numerous species of marine annelids of the Polynoidae family, with two rows of scale-like elytra along the back archaic
  2. 2
    An operation by which something is scaled back or reduced.

    "Budgetary constraints led to a scaleback in quality."

Synonyms

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scale wormscaledown

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"Budgetary constraints led to a scaleback in quality."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From scale + back.

Etymology 2

Deverbal from scale back.

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