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How to pronounce “reductive”
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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of reductive with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- The Utility of the Creative Process
is really a reductive process.
- Definition summary
- (Scots law, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory. [from 16th c.]
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How to pronounce reductive
The Utility of the Creative Process

is really a reductive process.
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (Scots law, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory. [from 16th c.]
- Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something. [from 17th c.]
- (chemistry, metallurgy, biology, economics) That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form. [from 17th c.]
- (now rare, historical) That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else. [from 17th c.]
- (now frequently derogatory) That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist. [from 20th c.]
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