"downshift" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used as a verb to describe the act of switching to a lower gear in a car, as well as a metaphorical shift in focus or activity. For example, "After a hectic week at work, I decided to downshift and relax with a good book."
They move with each other, of course, but it also looks as though the steady downshift in NGDP growth from the 1990s to the 2000s to the 2010s is matched by a downshift in employment growth.
The joy of making a particularly smooth and quick double-clutched downshift is something that cannot be experienced in a semi-auto.
One is the steady downshift in global growth since 2010 (which, to be fair, was one of the best annual global growth performances ever).
Millions of middle-class Americans have been forced to "downshift", as credit dries up and the costs of college and health care soar.
After averaging 10% annual growth for 30 years, the Chinese economy has managed only 7.5% over the past two years enviable for most countries but a clear downshift for China.
But the new more-or-less stabilised rate of services inflation represents a marked downshift from the pre-crisis levels (which had been surprisingly constant at a bit above 3% going all the way back to the early 1990s).
With the transmission in automatic D mode, this is accompanied by a downshift, plenty of engine revs and some dramatically sputtering sound effects with each subsequent upshift, but if you're in manual mode, with steering-column paddles to control the gears, you can stay in a high gear and still the M5 erupts into ballistic thrust.
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Underhill's theories include the Invariant Right (Americans keep to the right side of concourses or sidewalks), the downshift period (they need time to slow down), the Decompression Zone (they don't notice the area inside the door of a store), the butt-brush (women brushed on the behind move away from a display), and "petting" (customers like to handle merchandise).
Another reason for the sudden stylistic downshift could be the unexpected advancement out of the group stage of a number of teams employing too-similar tactics.
It was a blind hairpin to the left, and would require drivers to downshift to first gear after a furious sprint up the hill.
