to sunset
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7.2
- verb
- /ˈsʌnˌsɛt/
- Jargon
:
retirar
- The committee decided to sunset the outdated policy after six months of review.
- sunset in five years
- sunset the tax
Like I know someone who's on, you know, they have a pill for lung cancer and it does amazing things, but it does sunset.
- Like I know someone who's on, you know, they have a pill for lung cancer and it does amazing things, but it does sunset.
Examples
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If they are unable to pass a new law, the law that allows them to operate now will sunset in July, forcing them to close.
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One billion dollars was originally allocated for the program, which was designed to sunset on November 1 or whenever the money ran out.
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Section 2 provides that this act shall take effect immediately and shall sunset after two years.
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The solution to our debt is to let all the Bush tax cuts sunset.
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The act will sunset in 2011, at which time federal tax law will revert back to what it was before the act went into effect.
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It sunsets June 30, 2014.
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He says all federal legislation sunsets every five years.
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Furthermore, we wanted to sunset the Digsby servers as numerous services exist on the Internet that are more widely used and have very extensive APIs to accomplish the same synchronized experience.
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After 6 years, the gas tax increase would sunset (except for the automatic indexation to inflation), but states would have much more revenue from tolling, and drivers would be much more accepting of tolling as a normal part of driving.
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When carriers start to sunset their GSM and CDMA networks, you have to wonder what will become of the MVNOs that rely on the GSM and CDMA networks of the larger carriers.
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Synonyms
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4.2
To stop using something slowly over time
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2.8
Take something out of use when it is no longer needed
Antonyms
Idioms
- Literature
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6.0
To move toward a happy, peaceful future, often at the end of a story
Compounds
How Ongoing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sunset as a verb comes from the idea of the sun 'setting' or 'going down', so to 'sunset' a product is to stop it slowly or remove it over time, like the end of a day.