0 past simple and past participle of lower --
2 to reduce something: --
3 to behave in a way that makes people lose respect for you: --
[ + to infinitive ] I wouldn't lower myself to respond to his insults if I were you.
In effect, the lowered premiums, enriched benefit packages, and reduced cost-sharing characteristic of early managed care products could no longer be 'financed' by provider discounts.
If collapses occur, however, the sensor system has to re-examine the whole stack every time, and the overall performance will be lowered.
In other words, despite the complaints of pastoralists, they were achieving slightly lowered costs from their shepherds by increasing flock sizes.
Significant psychological factors, including stigmatization, lowered self-esteem, and anxiety, are experienced by those of both carrier and noncarrier status.
Needless to say, reduced costs were primarily a consequence of lowered labor costs.
If a contraction signals a permanent downward change in government expenditure, private agents expect future taxes to be permanently lowered.
The data included word-final items, which, perhaps because they were taken from connected speech contexts, had centralized rather than lowered formant values.
However, if one wants to integrate further in time, the resistivity has to be lowered to avoid too much diffusion of the current.
