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Definition of Ageing
1. Noun. Acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time.
Specialized synonyms: Mellowing
Generic synonyms: Biological Process, Organic Process
2. Adjective. Growing old.
3. Noun. The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age.
Specialized synonyms: Catabiosis
Generic synonyms: Biological Process, Organic Process
Derivative terms: Senescent
Definition of Ageing
1. Verb. (Australia New Zealand British) (present participle of age) ¹
2. Noun. (Australia New Zealand British) The process of becoming older or more mature. ¹
3. Noun. (Australia New Zealand British) The deliberate act of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is. ¹
4. Noun. (Australia New Zealand British gerontology) Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time. ¹
5. Adjective. (Australia New Zealand British) Becoming elderly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ageing
1. aging [n -S] - See also: aging
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ageing
Literary usage of Ageing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Korea by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2004)
"Thus, policies to cope with population ageing cut across many areas other than
just pension and labour market issues and yet are closely entwined. ..."
2. Germany by OECD Staff, OECD. (2005)
"The challenge of population ageing Future population trends in Germany will be
characterised by two related phenomena: further ageing, for both the total ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"On the ageing of Mordants in Calico Printing. By WALTER CRUM, FRS The object is
to moisten the acetates of iron and of alumina in order to their ..."
4. Institutional Investors in the New Financial Landscape by H. J. Blommestein, Norbert Funke (1998)
"The paper concludes that ageing-induced capital flows to emerging markets do not
solve OECD's basic pension problem. My arguments are based on both ..."
5. Global Employment: An International Investigation Into the Future of Work by Mihály Simai, Valentine M. Moghadam, Arvo Kuddo (1995)
"ageing reduces the proportion of the working age groups and of people belonging to
... ageing, on the other hand, increases the dependency ratios and puts a ..."
6. Oecd Economic Surveys by OECD Staff, Oecd (2003)
"It then considers it in the broader context of the ageing pressures on long-term
public finances. In particular it addresses the question of how ageing and ..."
7. Oecd Economic Surveys: Belgiu; 2007 by Oecd (2007)
"A Cost of ageing across different levels of government The additional fiscal cost
of population ageing (5.8% of GDP between 2005 and 2050) will fall mostly ..."
8. Chapters on Papermaking by Clayton Beadle (1907)
"The artists state that it is due to the improvement in what they call the "tooth,"
and is the result of ageing. In this case we have an improvement in the ..."