单词	obsolescence
释义	obsolescenceob‧so‧les‧cence /ˌɒbsəˈlesəns $ ˌɑːb-/ noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS For the less scrupulous, this has become the age of the worker with built in obsolescence. It is also worth noting that an operating lease transfers the risk of obsolescence from the lessee to the lessor. Managers and executives faced with their own likely technical obsolescence are in some senses confronted with their own professional mortality. So they followed their cousins in the car industry and made their buildings with built-in obsolescence. The faster products change, the faster they become obsolete, and even obsolescence creates openings. The international community clung to Resolution 242 despite its growing obsolescence, as the only agreed basis for a solution. The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. There has been a renewal of interest and research into questions of obsolescence, and storage costs. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► planned/built-in obsolescence So they followed their cousins in the car industry and made their buildings with built-in obsolescence. 1when something becomes old-fashioned and no longer useful, because something newer and better has been invented2planned/built-in obsolescence when a product is designed so that it will soon become unfashionable or impossible to use and will need replacing:  the planned obsolescence of some software
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