phase out
See also: phaseout
English
editPronunciation
edit- enPR: fāz out, IPA(key): /feɪ̯z äʊ̯t/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
editphase out (third-person singular simple present phases out, present participle phasing out, simple past and past participle phased out)
- (transitive) To remove or relinquish the use of (something) little by little, either via discrete diminishing phases or (by extension) by continuous gradations; to remove in phases, or as if by phases (gradually).
- Synonym: sunset
- Antonym: phase in
- Coordinate term: phase down
- Leaded petrol was phased out in the course of the 1990s.
- 2023 August 9, “Network News: Network Rail under fire for spending thousands of pounds on flights”, in RAIL, number 989, page 15:
- It [Greenpeace] also says that tax exemptions should be phased out for airlines, including the opt-outs that low-cost carriers currently have from paying VAT or fuel duty on kerosene.
- 2023 December 14, Damian Carrington, quoting Michael E. Mann, “Failure of Cop28 on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘devastating’, say scientists”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- “The lack of an agreement to phase out fossil fuels was devastating,” said Prof Michael Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US.
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editto remove
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