step-down

Questions about step-down

What does step-down mean?

step-down means "the act of decreasing or reducing something".

How many syllables are in step-down?

step-down has 2 syllables: step--down. The stress falls on "step-".

What is another word for step-down?

Close synonyms include decrease, diminution, reduction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is step-down a common word?

step-down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.