Usually means: Reduction in size, amount, intensity.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. decreases: Merriam-Webster
  2. decreases: Collins English Dictionary
  3. decreases: Vocabulary.com
  4. Decreases, decreases: Wordnik
  5. decreases: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. decreases: Wiktionary
  7. decreases: Dictionary.com
  8. decreases: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. decreases: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decreases: Legal dictionary

(Note: See decrease as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (decrease)

verb:  (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
verb:  (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
noun:  An amount by which a quantity decreases or is decreased.
noun:  (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting).
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