Used in a Sentence

eliminating

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for eliminating.

Editorial note

Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of eliminating gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.

verb

(transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).

verb

(transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for eliminating.

verb

(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.

verb

(transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).

verb

(transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).

verb

(ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).

Example sentences

1

Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources.

2

Also, most endemic low-level crime is best fought with policies and eliminating poverty, not by pinning petty criminals after the damage is already done.

3

So far it's failed on everything else, though, while specifically eliminating strengths in its design for politics essentially.

4

The current migrant situation is unfortunate but simply eliminating borders or doing away with citizenship is not the answer.

5

You can make redundancies by eliminating positions, but again this is subject to consultation and fairness rules.

6

That too is solvable by eliminating local state and has an advantage of making animation time travel debugging possible.

7

And yes, distributed discussions that preserve free speech and allow eliminating crap is definitely moon-shot hard.

8

The main issues are making our CPU's do more work, eliminating memory bottlenecks, and dramatically improving energy efficiency of both.

9

But still, Redfin long ago gave up on eliminating the middleman, and is now content to try to be a better middleman.

10

The Lisp dataset was really small - after eliminating projects with less than 3 watchers and duplicates, there were 19 projects left.

11

Automation is affecting jobs with higher wages and higher productivity first, turning those markets into winner take all or eliminating labor altogether.

12

Could go a long way towards building space-ships & eliminating poverty / starvation...

Quote examples

1

Eliminating the wage cap would remove any remaining fig leaf covering its essentially redistributive nature: High income workers would have to live to 140 to get back what they "paid in" even without interest.

2

And my guess is: the local newspapers are a worse political target than evil large western company they can blame all their ills on:) "Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources." I don't buy this.

3

"Free speech" and "eliminating crap" are complete opposites.

4

There are lots of legitimate arguments that might be marshaled against the proposition that eliminating GS enabled the 2000s banking crisis through its effect on the relevant regulatory culture rather than its specific rules, but "the 1980s S&L crisis happened with GS in place" isn't among them.

Proper noun examples

1

Eliminating the financial incentive to pursue legal action pretty much eliminates the threat of prosecution.

2

Eliminating espionage isn't one of them.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use eliminating in a sentence?

Targeting the companies indexing the information is probably a more tractable problem then tracking down and eliminating all the sources.

What does eliminating mean?

(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.

What part of speech is eliminating?

eliminating is commonly used as verb.