do not reduce

  • 1Do Not Reduce Order — ( DNR Order) limit order to buy or to sell, or a stop limit order to sell that is not to be reduced by the amount of an ordinary cash dividend on the ex dividend date. A do not reduce order applies only to ordinary cash dividends, and not stock… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 2Do Not Reduce - DNR — A trade type used on an buy or sell order. It tells the broker not to decrease the limit price on buy limit and sell stop orders on the record date of a cash dividend. When a stock goes ex dividend the price is usually reduced by the amount of… …

    Investment dictionary

  • 3reduce — re|duce W1S1 [rıˈdju:s US rıˈdu:s] v [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: reducere to lead back , from ducere to lead ] 1.) [T] to make something smaller or less in size, amount, or price = ↑cut →↑reduction ▪ The governor announced a new plan to… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 4reduce — 01. The government hopes that by raising taxes on cigarettes, it will be able to [reduce] the number of teenagers who start smoking. 02. Criminologists believe that the [reduction] in violent crime in this country is due to the fact that our… …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 5reduce — /ri doohs , dyoohs /, v., reduced, reducing. v.t. 1. to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one s weight by 10 pounds. 2. to lower in degree, intensity, etc.: to reduce the speed of a car. 3. to bring down to a… …

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  • 6reduce — /rɪ dju:s/ verb 1. to make something smaller or lower ● We must reduce expenditure if we want to stay in business. ● They have reduced prices in all departments. ● We were expecting the government to reduce taxes not to increase them. ● We have… …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 7reduce — [[t]rɪdju͟ːs, AM du͟ːs[/t]] ♦♦ reduces, reducing, reduced 1) VERB If you reduce something, you make it smaller in size or amount, or less in degree. [V n] It reduces the risks of heart disease... [V n] Consumption is being reduced by 25 per cent …

    English dictionary

  • 8reduce — re•duce [[t]rɪˈdus, ˈdyus[/t]] v. duced, duc•ing 1) to bring down to a smaller size, amount, price, etc 2) to lower in degree, intensity, etc 3) to demote to a lower rank 4) to treat analytically, as a complex idea 5) to act destructively upon (a …

    From formal English to slang

  • 9reduce — [14] ‘Lessen, diminish’ is a comparatively recent semantic development for reduce. Its Latin ancestor was certainly not used in that sense. This was redūcere, a compound verb formed from the prefix re ‘back, again’ and dūcere ‘lead, bring’… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 10reduce — [14] ‘Lessen, diminish’ is a comparatively recent semantic development for reduce. Its Latin ancestor was certainly not used in that sense. This was redūcere, a compound verb formed from the prefix re ‘back, again’ and dūcere ‘lead, bring’… …

    Word origins