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phase out en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • fāz out
  • /feɪ̯z äʊ̯t/
  • (Australia) audio

Meanings

  1. (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).
    • Leaded petrol was phased out in the course of the 1990s.
    • 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 August 9, “Network News: Network Rail under fire for spending thousands of pounds on flights”, in RAIL, number 989, page 15:
    • “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. 2023 December 14, Damian Carrington, quoting Michael E. Mann, “Failure of Cop28 on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘devastating’, say scientists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
phasing out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
phased out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
phased out Tense=Past lexicographic
phases out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

phase in

Coordinates

phase down

Deriveds

phase-out · phaseout

Synonyms

sunset

Translations (12)

fr délaisser (to remove) · es eliminar gradualmente (to remove) · da udfase (to remove) · es desfasar (to remove) · it eliminare (to remove) · de nach und nach abschaffen / aussondern (to remove) · fr abandonner (to remove) · af uitfasseer (to remove) · nl afbouwen (to remove) · sv fasa ut (to remove) · es retirar paulatinamente (to remove) · de auslaufen lassen (to remove)