"be downsized by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to have one's job or work reduced in size or scope. Example: Many employees were afraid that they would be downsized by the company's recent budget cuts.
After months of rehabilitation on an abdominal strain, she parachuted into the Australian Open, only to be downsized by Lisa Raymond, a doubles specialist.
Nestlé has announced the popular Killer Python confectionery will be downsized by approximately half in an effort to reduce the portion size of the sweet.
The bearings are lightweight and enable machines and devices to be downsized by reducing the number of parts, since the journal and thrust loads can be supported by a pair of bearings.
Like many other retiring Boomers, we worried A Child's Place might be downsized by a new owner or have to close.
With too little food to sustain them, they were downsized by natural selection — a process known as insular dwarfism — and their metabolism was repurposed for stockpiling calories.
With too little food to sustain them, they were downsized by natural selection a process known as insular dwarfism and their metabolism was repurposed for stockpiling calories.
The beer fort was downsized by the second weekend because Beer Fort Guy left a few cases behind for his friend's younger brother to play with.
You don't have to hide them.' (Respondent 8) The partnership structure was downsized by removing the management team.
Finally, the multilamellar vesicles are downsized by extrusion of the lipid suspension through a polycarbonate filter of well-defined pore size at elevated temperature or by sonication to yield a suspension of liposomes with a narrow and well-defined size distribution.
We'll all soon be downsized, outsourced and overwhelmed by a populist uprising of netnewsies who will report to no one but for everyone.
He plays Nick, a corporate guy who, in the traditional Mamet style, is a desperate alcoholic loser who gets called in by a hatchet-faced younger boss to be downsized.
