Betekenis van play sth down In het Nederlands

• 0 to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is:

  • Military spokespeople tried to play down the seriousness of the disaster.

• 1 to say that something is not important, especially because you do not want it to be known publicly:

  • Insiders are playing the matter down, stressing the investigation is industry-wide and not specific to their own investment bank.