outlive your usefulness

outlive | American Dictionary

outlive
verb[ T ]
us/ˌɑʊtˈlɪv/
to live or exist longer than someone or something:
At 90, I’ve outlived most of my friends.

Examples of outlive

outlive
Their books seemed to indicate that ' sociological ' theories may have, at least in part, outlived their usefulness.
We see that the bounds on i and o indicate that they are not constrained to be outlived by any other regions.
The problem here is that the performance/competence distinction has outlived its usefulness, if it was ever beneficial to the field.
Table 7 shows that the female elderly is more at risk of outliving their available savings than the male elderly.
The inhabitants chose the built-ins, appliances, finishes, and colours from a catalogue and had the option of replacing features as they wore out, were outdated, or outlived their necessity.
A specific worry expressed in several interviews was the consequences of outliving savings and being evicted from the care-home because the local authority would not agree to meet the fees.
One difficult decision concerns longevity risk, where individuals face the possibility of outliving their resources or, alternatively, of foregoing consumption by dying before wealth is exhausted.
Moreover, the more cynical elements in the opposition realised that a single law would not override institutions that had outlived a variety of political regimes, including years of military rule.
The only people not to emphasise their families were those who had outlived them, for example those who had lost their spouse and were also childless.
In particular, the new region is outlived by the "old" current region and becomes the "new" current region for the evaluation of the body of the letregion.
As those limits on taxable business have outlived their purpose, the clause deals with the problem by abolishing them with retrospective effect.
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