引き下げる

ひきさげる

Meanings

1. Ichidan verb, Transitive to lower (a price, tax, standard, etc.); to bring down; to reduce; to cut
2. to demote
3. to withdraw (a proposal, request, etc.); to abandon
4. to withdraw (troops, etc.); to pull back; to move back

Kanji

• 引 pull. Read as ひく.
• 下 down. Read as さげる.

Example sentences

• 米国連邦準備銀行は金利を引き下げました。
  The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates.
• 成人年齢が１８歳に引き下げられた後も、成人式は今まで通り２０歳で行うという自治体が多いようです。
  Even after the legal age of adulthood got lowered to 18, it seems like there's still a lot of places where they continue to do their coming of age ceremonies at 20, as they'd been doing before.

Common phrases

• 価格を引き下げる
• 税率を引き下げる
• 金利を引き下げる
• 関税を引き下げる
• 年齢を引き下げる
• 基準を引き下げる
• 格付けを引き下げる
• 比率を引き下げる
• コストを引き下げる

Related forms

• 引き下がる (ひきさがる) to withdraw (intransitive partner)

Word lists

• JLPT N1

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