Companies may, however, reduce their capital to a lower figure if directors of private companies warrant solvency, or courts approve a public company's reduction.

These statistical measures are often reduced to a single figure representing an aspect of past performance:

The report used census material and other data to reduce social health to a single figure called the social-health index.

The fund responded by reducing its first payment to a figure officials believed would send a warning but not rattle the markets.

All balance gone, the bodyguard skidded to his knees, reduced to a clumsy scrabbling figure.

Carry over the assumptions of psychological determinism and the new nature of the Christian will be reduced to a figure of speech.

I shall recommend to my principal that he inspect the mechanism only if the price is reduced to a reasonable and rational figure.

There was also mounting pressure on the manager to reduce the first team squad from 28 players to a more manageable figure.

He is finally reduced to a pathetic figure mumbling in despair, "But what about he Apocalypse?"

In minutes, the women's rhetoric has reduced the man, literally, to a 6-inch-tall figure.