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.
Discount is offered to those in reduced circumstances.
I have grave misgivings as to the wisdom of granting loans to persons who are obviously already in reduced circumstances and would find repaying a loan a severe financial burden.
The argument has been valid for those who presumably are better oft, but it is not apparently valid for those who are living in reduced circumstances on retirement pensions.
Those with small incomes are already badly hit by the war and many are in reduced circumstances.
Many of them are elderly people, possibly in reduced circumstances.
Millions of pounds are being denied to women living in reduced circumstances.
I have many sad examples in my post-bag of people living in 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.
