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- noun One who, or that which,
downsizes .
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Examples
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George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a traveling "downsizer" who lives for frequent flyer miles, airport executive clubs, and his next businessman's holiday.
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George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a traveling "downsizer" who lives for frequent flyer miles, airport executive clubs, and his next businessman's holiday.
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At home in business class: George Clooney, a corporate downsizer who travels to offices to lay workers off, has a one-night stand with a fellow traveler played by Vera Farmiga, but it doesn't end there.
Timely 'Up in the Air' rises to challenge with humor, heart 2009
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George Clooney plays slick corporate downsizer Ryan Bingham.
Timely 'Up in the Air' rises to challenge with humor, heart 2009
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Her turn as an up-and-coming corporate downsizer opposite George Clooney in "Up in the Air" has awards-season prognosticators shouting, "Oscar!"
‘Up In The Air’ Director Jason Reitman ‘Wrote This Role For’ Anna Kendrick » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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The new George Clooney film Up in the Air charted that course, taking six years to make it into production, only to find that its story of a corporate downsizer facing a crisis of conscience was even more relevant in a time when few people are taking their jobs for granted.
Art coincidentally imitates life in historic, timely 'Invictus' 2009
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A token amount of plot -- Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a corporate downsizer, flying cross-country in order to lay off employees when their supervisors are unwilling to do the deed.
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A token amount of plot -- Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a corporate downsizer, flying cross-country in order to lay off employees when their supervisors are unwilling to do the deed.
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In "Up in the Air" Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a corporate downsizer who fires people for a living.
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In the movie, he's a corporate downsizer; in the novel, he was the out-placement expert who worked with the downsized.
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