simple past tense and past participle of reduce
"The company reduced its staff last month after facing significant financial losses."
In plain English: To reduce something means to make it smaller, less, or weaker.
"The company has reduced its staff by ten percent due to lower sales."
well below normal (especially in price)
"The store marked down all winter coats to reduced prices of just fifty dollars each."
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
"After the storm damaged several trees, the city decided to reduce its annual budget for park maintenance by 15 percent."
In plain English: Reduced means something has been made smaller, less, or lower than it was before.
"The reduced price made the item very easy to buy."
Usage: Use "reduced" to describe something that has become physically smaller, cheaper in price, or lower in quantity after an action was taken. It is the correct adjective form when referring to a state of diminishment following a verb like reduce.
Derived from the Latin reducere, this past participle combines re- (back) with ducere (to lead), originally meaning to bring back or guide again. It entered English via Old French as a term for leading something backward or diminishing its quantity.