Usually means: Reducing work to simplify life.
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  1. downshifting: Merriam-Webster
  2. downshifting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. downshifting: Wordnik
  4. downshifting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. downshifting: Wiktionary
  6. downshifting: Dictionary.com
  7. Downshifting (lifestyle), Downshifting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. downshifting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Downshifting: Investopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (downshifting)

▸ noun:  A social trend towards living a simpler, less ambitious life with a better work-life balance.

Similar:
degrowth, lying flat, essentialism, declinism, postindustrialization, embourgeoisement, decommodification, slow fashion, decelerationist, postmaterialism, more...

Opposite:
upshifting, accelerating, speeding up

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Similar:
degrowth, lying flat, essentialism, declinism, postindustrialization, embourgeoisement, decommodification, slow fashion, decelerationist, postmaterialism, more...

Opposite:
upshifting, accelerating, speeding up



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