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What does pare down mean?

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  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process.
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My personal recommendation would be to be a little more realistic here, and perhaps to pare down the agenda.
There are various functions which enable you to pare down the list to exactly those documents you want to process.
I've tried to pare down a 20-minute presentation to the space of about five or ten minutes.
There is a movement to re-establish the laws of free competition, to promote globalization, to pare down the size of government.
One of the hardest parts of writing this report was to pare down the comments so the reader would not be overwhelmed.
Square is an attempt to pare down the process of buying something.

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