Jul 24, 2017 12:34
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English term

start-down expenses

English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general)
When gathering information about the economic situation of the business, you shall make a difference between start-up and start-down expenses
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philgoddard Jul 24, 2017:
This sounds like a translation, or English written by a non-native speaker - "the economic situation of the business", "you shall make a difference".
"Start-down costs" gets a handful of hits, but they relate to machinery.
BrigitteHilgner Jul 24, 2017:
In my opinion, ... this expression does not make sense.
Maybe "wind-down expenses/costs"?

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scale down

It's been hard to find something. From the post above, only the first half is useful to you. Then he speaks about doing what you want. But he suggest that is reducing the costs of your business.
Peer comment(s):

disagree Yvonne Gallagher : English is wrong. No way of knowing if this is supposed to be 'scale down' or 'wind down', most likely the latter (but not synoyms so it's dangerous to guess!) Changing to disagree. It's patently wrong
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agree acetran
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