discontinuation

discontinue | American Dictionary

discontinue
verb[ T ]
us/ˌdɪs·kənˈtɪn·ju/
to stop doing, using, or operating something:
Discontinue the medication if you have cramps.
The airline announced that weekday flights to Kansas City would be discontinued.

discontinue | Business English

discontinue
verb[ T ]
 COMMERCEuk /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuː/us
to stop making, providing, or selling a particular service or product:
Access to online services and live technical support will be discontinued after April 30th.
discontinued products/lines

Examples of discontinue

discontinue
Upon the death of a male head, the proportions of discontinued households were larger at both younger and older ages.
Equally, it refers to the availability of appropriate devices, as rapid technological change soon makes systems obsolete and manufacturers discontinue production.
Their study mimicked usual clinical practice and, on discharge from hospital, supplementation was discontinued.
These gastrointestinal events were mild-to-moderate in severity and resulted in only three discontinued subjects over 20 months.
In a solitary life history, below, both parents were absent for a short period resulting in discontinued learning.
Copresent individuals may make visible a place for re-engaging talk by discontinuing individual work, or by producing physical movements that show one's availability.
The graduate system was discontinued, having been denounced as a system for cultivating revisionist seedlings.
Oxygenation was used to support cardiopulmonary resuscitation but was discontinued when failure became clear in the central nervous and other systems.
However, they also observed that many people discontinued some medications, including statins, altogether.
In the experimental conditions, subjects continued maintenance of stimulus information in the second delay interval, while in the control condition retention was discontinued.
These students are judged to be poor at mathematics and will most often discontinue their mathematics education prematurely.
Seeds with radicles 2 mm were considered to be germinated and thus discontinued for the imbibition tests.
In another study, general practitioners and patients disagreed with guidelines on prevention that suggested discontinuing annual check-ups.
When no change in the state of the thrombus was detected after continuous intravenous infusion of urokinase for 10 days, the treatment was discontinued.
The task was discontinued when the child failed to repeat two trials of the same length consecutively.
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