lightweighting
lightweighting is the present participle and gerund of lightweight.
Meaning of lightweight
Verb
lightweight (third-person singular simple present lightweights, present participle lightweighting, simple past and past participle lightweighted)
- To reduce the amount or weight of.
- By extending the producer’s responsibility to the product’s disposal (its post-consumer life), issues previously outside the business calculus become of paramount importance. Because a producer knows it will have to bear the cost of collecting and valorizing the product, it must manage a new set of...1997 December 22, James Salzman, “Sustainable consumption and the law”, in Environmental Law
Questions about lightweighting
- What is lightweighting the present participle and gerund of?
- Lightweighting is the present participle and gerund of lightweight.
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