0 a polite way to describe a situation in which someone is poorer than they once were:
She claims she is a duchess living in reduced circumstances.
Turner apportioned the blame for the reduced circumstances of these labouring families to the 1834 poor law reforms.
Maskelyne's father died when he was 12, leaving the family in reduced circumstances.
At present, institutions must sometimes resort to drastic measures to enforce the payment of maintenance, while creditors often live in reduced circumstances.
We are spending rashly, like a man in reduced circumstances trying to live in an expensive mansion.
Some of the taxpayers who have to contribute to these pensions may be people in very reduced circumstances.
It will not be based upon their normal wages, but upon their wages in the present reduced circumstances.
This dear old gentleman, now aged 73, lives with his loyal wife—a wonderful woman—in very reduced circumstances.
This is not a sign of a poverty-stricken nation or of a people who are feeling the reduced circumstances of their living.
