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phase out

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. phase-outverb

    the act or instance of a planned discontinuation

  2. phase outverb

    terminate gradually

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  1. Phase outverb

    To halt (an activity) in steps, or gradually; as, to phase out use of 386-based PC's.

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  1. phase outverb

    To remove or relinquish the use of something little by little

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  1. phase out

    Phase out refers to the gradual process of discontinuing a product, service, process, or scheme over a certain period of time. It is usually done to replace the old with something new or more efficient, or due to obsoleteness or lack of demand or profitability. Rather than an abrupt halt, it enables smooth transition and adjustment for all parties involved.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of phase out in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of phase out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of phase out in a Sentence

  1. Director Kristalina Georgieva:

    With oil prices at record-low levels, now is the time to phase out harmful subsidies.

  2. Carlos Fernández:

    We can't phase out coal if we can't replace it, otherwise we're talking about a lack of energy, and that's poverty, so leaders need to look to clean energy, to accelerate investment and help the developing world make a green transition.

  3. Greenpeace UK:

    If the government wants a chance to catch up, it needs a proper strategy and enough cash to clean up our homes on a massive scale. This means substantial grants for heat pump installations, especially for the poorest families, removing VAT on green home technologies and a phase out of gas boilers early next decade.

  4. Mitzi Jonelle Tan:

    I am angry at the way this COP is not managing climate change as a crisis. We can't even talk about fossil fuels in the final text. Polluters are more welcome than people and this is what we, as youth, will keep doing : fighting to phase-out fossil fuels, i live in the Philippines, one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world, and I am so sick of having to say that sentence over and over and over because I have to keep talking about my climate trauma and my climate anxiety, just so that we understand how urgent the climate crisis is. We have to get past that point. We have to go past the point of having to explain that the climate crisis is here.

  5. Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska:

    We should start the coal phase-out right now. The Green Deal is a tool which could lead us through a smart energy transformation to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.


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