Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To undergo the process of becoming obsolete.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become obsolescent; fall into disuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To become obsolescent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To become
obsolete .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become obsolete, fall into disuse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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ComCast is already abusing their authority, to "obsolesce" their customer's own equipment so that the customer is forced to lease / buy ComCast's own equipment.
NYT > Technology 2008
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Ultimately, innovation is what allows an economy to grow quickly and create new jobs as old ones obsolesce and disappear.
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A combination of encrypted identity-confederation services and escrow-based private contract-enforcement mechanisms will obsolesce government-based contract enforcement.
Health and Taxes, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Ultimately, innovation is what allows an economy to grow quickly and create new jobs as old ones obsolesce and disappear.
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Using that type of equation one could also look to the cost of bringing a structure into code compliance, with suitable considerations for some elements of functional obsolesce due to age etc, as a ratio of the value of the building.
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Ultimately, innovation is what allows an economy to grow quickly and create new jobs as old ones obsolesce and disappear.
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Ultimately, innovation is what allows an economy to grow quickly and create new jobs as old ones obsolesce and disappear.
Terrance Heath: Chronic Unemployment: Crisis or "Correction" 2010
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Ultimately, innovation is what allows an economy to grow quickly and create new jobs as old ones obsolesce and disappear.
Terrance Heath: Chronic Unemployment: Crisis or 'Correction' Terrance Heath 2010
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Ultimately, innovation is what allows an economy to grow quickly and create new jobs as old ones obsolesce and disappear.
Terrance Heath: Chronic Unemployment: Crisis or 'Correction' 2010
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They used to call this "planned obsolesce" in the car business.
John Mellencamp: On My Mind: The State of the Music Business 2009
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