0 present participle of de-escalate
1 to (cause to) become less dangerous or difficult:
The government has taken these measures in an attempt to de-escalate the conflict.
There are signs that the confrontation is beginning to de-escalate.
They are ready to join in either de-escalating or ceasing hostilities.
The de-escalating of wages has become the latest demand.
It particularly will not do if we are talking about it as a policy for de-escalating wage settlements.
In pursuit of all this, it would help to show that de-escalating violence produces a peace dividend.
We are slowly de-escalating huge and unjustified wage claims, which more than anything else have resulted in the high unemployment and high prices.
We should be saying that we want a nonproliferation treaty and the way to get that is to look at de-escalating nuclear arms, not increasing them.
Success, therefore, in de-escalating the level of wage settlements against the background of a firm control of demand is our short-term policy.
The only practical way of de-escalating the present inflationary wage demands is to apply the same rule to each of them.
