tapering
渐进式,渐进,缩减,渐进式的
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Definitions
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- : to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- : to grow gradually lean.
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- : to make gradually smaller toward one end.
- : to reduce gradually.
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- : gradual diminution of width or thickness in an elongated object.
- : gradual decrease of force, capacity, etc.
- : anything having a tapering form, as a spire or obelisk.
- : a candle, especially a very slender one.
- : a long wick coated with wax, tallow, or the like, as for use in lighting candles or gas.
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- : taper off, to become gradually more slender toward one end.to cease by degrees; decrease; diminish: The storm is beginning to taper off now. I haven't stopped smoking entirely, but I'm tapering off to three cigarettes a day.
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Examples
The Federal Reserve decided the economy is strong enough to start tapering its bond purchases.
She would never have used the “T” word, “tapering,” because unemployment remains unconcionably high.
On CNBC Wednesday morning, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein called for the Fed to start tapering.
In June, Bernanke had said that the tapering could start only once gains in the labor market seemed persistent and safe.
The implication is that Summers sees less risk in rapid tapering.
Next from the large casket Mrs. Sin took another smaller casket and a very long, tapering silver bodkin.
Her hands were sinuous as serpents, the fingers tapering, the nails very long like the Chinese.
She bends over him, she draws forth a knife, slender, tapering to a point almost like a needle.
The caudal appendage of the juvenile and female is made up of three small joints tapering to a blunt end.
Cephalothorax suboval, upper margin strongly concave at the sides and tapering to a point at the median line.