AGING


Meaning of AGING in English

I. adjective

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a fleet of aging airplanes

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Both have for years eked lacklustre profit out of aging products.

For aging family members who live on their own, family bonds do seem to hold up.

She thought of him as an aging hippy.

The aging pirate king facing the youthful bandit prince-patriarch against upstart - monarch against usurper.

Their aging parents will be looked after in private homes.

We have an aging population and a growing number of residential care homes in the private, voluntary and statutory sectors.

What power it had was in the hands of an aging bureaucracy.

II. noun

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For many, memory loss is a part of aging .

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Artificial aging Having produced the fake, there is then the problem of making it look old.

Furthermore, this increase is entirely explained by the aging of the population between the two censuses.

It aims at dispelling the myths about old age and at building a network of associations concerned with the issues of aging .

It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors.

There is no shame in amending ambitions to take account of aging .

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