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tapering

/tey-per/US // ˈteɪ pər //UK // (ˈteɪpə) //

渐进式,渐进,缩减,渐进式的

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
    • : to grow gradually lean.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make gradually smaller toward one end.
    • : to reduce gradually.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
  1. 1
    • : 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.