To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.) / To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.

Toward or at the front of a theatrical stage. / Towards a motion-picture or television camera.

At the front of a stage.

The part of a stage that is closest to the audience or camera.

(medicine, transitive) To restage downward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a lower stage than that found at last assessment (compare upstage).

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downselect

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downshift

simple past tense and past participle of downselect

simple past tense and past participle of downshift

present participle of downselect