discontinue

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dis·con·tin·ue /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuː/ verb [transitiveT]

STOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGto stop doing, producing, or providing something 停止，中断，终止

Bus route 51 is being discontinued.

51 路公共汽车目前停止运营。

a discontinued china pattern

不再使用的瓷器图案

—discontinuation /ˌdɪskəntɪnjuˈeɪʃən/ noun [uncountableU]

—discontinuance /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuəns/ noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

discontinue• If fewer than ten students sign up, the course will be discontinued.• If it is not working in that time then the chart should be discontinued.• Three years and $ 50 million later, the service was discontinued.• In addition, one patient receiving cyclosporin was excluded because treatment was discontinued after only three months.• And in the struggle to turn the company into a lean commercial outfit, some lines have been discontinued altogether.• The airline plans to discontinue daily flights from L.A. to Osaka.• Doctors decided to discontinue the treatment when it became clear that the boy had no chance of recovering.• Sandoz and CoCensys have mutually agreed to discontinue their agreement after its March expiration.• After two weeks I discontinued them after determining they were not significantly improving morale.

From Longman Business Dictionary

discontinuedis·con·tin·ue /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuː/ verb [transitiveT]

to stop doing, making, or providing something that you have regularly done, made, or provided until now

The guitar manufacturer discontinued almost their entire range to concentrate on the RG450 and JEM series.

The bus service is being discontinued as of March 1st.

This is a discontinued line (=product that is no longer being made) that we are selling off cheaply.

dis·con·tin·ue verb

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