scaleback
scaleback · scalebacks
An operation by which something is scaled back or reducedAn operation by which something is scaled back or reduced.
Meaning
2 sensesAn operation by which something is scaled back or reduced.
Budgetary constraints led to a scaleback in quality.
(archaic)Any member of numerous species of marine annelids of the Polynoidae family, with two rows of scale-like elytra along the back