### action | reduction | contraction:

Uterine contraction
* are infrequent, weak and of short duration
  - involuntary and, for the most part, independent of extrauterine control
  - irregular and more painful
* associated with labor cause a decrease in uterine blood flow.
* leads to oxytocin release, which causes more uterine contraction.

Cost reduction
* Some cost reductions increase economic productivity.
* is an important factor in improving the state of a business
  - the real key to national prosperity under a rising standard of living

Cutback
* are decrease.
* reduce cost, and that contributes to health.

### action | reduction:

Depletion
* Most depletion is caused by production.
* Some depletion is caused by bacterial decomposition
* affects development.
* can develop rapidly with severe diarrhea, especially if associated with vomiting.
* decrease in resource commodity to fulfil the needs of production and consumption.
  - taken over the period of time that mineral is being extracted
  - the process of allocating the cost of the natural resources to the units removed
  - used to allocate the cost of the asset to the period in which it is consumed
  - when they are a lot of trees cut down
* leads to irregularity.
* takes places.
* threatens existence.

### action | reduction | depletion:

Oxygen depletion
* Some oxygen depletion is caused by bacterial decomposition
* can kill fish in the pond
  - occur in both winter and summer
* causes the release of nutrients from the sediment thus compounding the problem.
* common problem in the hypolimnion of eutrophic lakes.
* is caused by the release of biodegradable matter into the water, such as sewage
  - use of too much carbon
  - consistent with microbial activity in environments rich in organic compounds
  - speculated by many scientists
  - the cause of many fish kills
* slows biodegradation and adversely affects resident benthic fauna.

Potassium depletion
* causes calcium loss.
* exacerbates essential hypertension.
* leads to intracellular acidosis and causes hypocitraturia

Discount
* are decrease.
* is the percent reduced on the price of an item.
* question about quantity.

### action | reduction | easement:

Conservation easement
* allow landowners to protect land in perpetuity while retaining ownership.
* are the primary way used to protect private land from development.
* involve the purchase or donation of a property's development rights.
* respect the private property rights of individuals.

Emission reduction
* helps prevent the formation of ground-level ozone, a major component of smog.
* is achieved by reducing the volume of air which exhausts from the dryer
  - used as a rough proxy measure for the state of the global environment

### action | reduction:

Harm reduction
* can be complementary to the abstinence model of addictions treatment
  - include abstinence
* is about giving people the tools to save themselves
  - making dangerous behaviours less dangerous
  - focused on public health
  - sometimes a step towards abstinence
* looks at social policy, at the individual in the social realm.
* model that was born from the drug situation and the people involved themselves.
* preventive goal.
* views people as responsible for their own choices.
* way of working with people suffering from substance use.

Linguistic reduction
* are part of natural English.
  * are part of natural English. They cannot be considered slang, or improper.

Minimization
* is decrease
  - evidence of shadow suppression at work
* is the expression used when a hazard is lessened by scaling down the hazardous process
  - opposite of exaggeration
* occurs when a person is able to put aside superficial differences, like eating habits
  - with all behaviors, and fears of opening up about the behaviors are common