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phase down

phase down verb: to gradually reduce the size or scale of.

Verb

phase down (third-person singular simple present phases down, present participle phasing down, simple past and past participle phased down)

  1. (transitive) To gradually reduce the size or scale of.
    • We have also, for the first time, adopted text to scale up clean power and phase down dirty coal.2021 November 13, Alok Sharma, “Alok Sharma’s remarks at the COP26 Closing Plenary”, in 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Government of the United Kingdom, retrieved 13 Nov 2021
    • The most significant step in that direction came in last year’s Glasgow pact, which reached a pained consensus supporting a “phase down of unabated coal power”. It did not land on that language until the final moments, when China and India demanded “phase out” be watered down to “phase down”. It...2022 November 17, Adam Morton, “Getting rid of fossil fuels at a climate summit is harder than you’d think”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of phase down

third-person singular presentphases down
present participlephasing down
past participlephased down
pastphased down

Words formed from phase down

Questions about phase down

What does phase down mean?
Phase down means to gradually reduce the size or scale of.
What part of speech is phase down?
Phase down is a verb.
What is the past tense of phase down?
The past tense of phase down is phased down.

Words near phase down in the dictionary

  1. phase contrast microscope
  2. phase contrast microscopes
  3. phase contrast microscopy
  4. phase diagram
  5. phase diagrams
  6. phase down
  7. phase factor
  8. phase factors
  9. phase function
  10. phase functions
  11. phase in

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