sunsetting

«sunsetting» in Mova's school dictionary: ending a product, service or law, often slowly — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (present participle of sunset: sunset, sunsets, sunsetted or sunset, sunsetting); noun (sunsetting)

meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, business jargon) ending a product, service or law, often slowly. tree →

2) (noun "sunset") the time when the sun goes down. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used by tech and businesses to make shutting something down sound natural and gentle; jargon, all regions.

examples

• The company is sunsetting the old app next month. tree →
• The law has a sunset clause, so it ends after five years. tree →
• We watched the sunset from the beach. tree →
• "Sunsetting" just means they are switching it off. tree →
• The game will be sunsetted, and players are upset. tree →
• The bank is sunsetting paper statements. tree →

note

Stands for "ending" or "shutting down". Different from watching a sunset. Past form is "sunsetted" or "sunset".

In the corpora

• "Sunsetting" means ending or discontinuing a product: the firm stops making or running it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sunsetting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.