0 to cut away the outer layer from something, especially a fruit or a vegetable:
1 to cut away the thin outer layer of something, esp. food, or to reduce the size of something:
2 to reduce an amount or number of something:
The city manager is trying to pare down the number of tax-exempt organizations that donate to the city.
Each department should submit plans to pare 2.5% from their budgets this fiscal year.
Now, the term compadre, or its abbreviated form pare, is normally used in address to indicate intimacy and equality.
However, we have heard few real proposals so far about where he intends to make the cuts and where resources are to be pared back.
Unfortunately, this railway network has, in the last 15 years, been pared down, and there have been cutbacks also in the maintenance of it.
In times when budgets are being pared to the bone, the follow-up costs for new prestige projects are often neglected.
Presumably it could exist without that, but if you pare away everything which there is equal reason to pare away, you are left with something very strange.
Through a rearrangement and a paring down of our present policies we can find the resources that are necessary to finance the enlargement of 100 million people.
My personal recommendation would be to be a little more realistic here, and perhaps to pare down the agenda.
I say that a little more paring would be useful in this matter.
