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# sunsetting

«sunsetting» in Mova's school dictionary: **ending a product, service or law, often slowly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (present participle of sunset: sunset, sunsets, sunsetted or sunset, sunsetting); noun (sunsetting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, business jargon) ending a product, service or law, often slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunsetting/#m1)

2) (noun "sunset") the time when the sun goes down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunsetting/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used by tech and businesses to make shutting something down sound natural and gentle; jargon, all regions.

### examples

- The company is sunsetting the old app next month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunsetting/#x1)
- The law has a sunset clause, so it ends after five years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunsetting/#x2)
- We watched the sunset from the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunsetting/#x3)
- "Sunsetting" just means they are switching it off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunsetting/#x4)
- The game will be sunsetted, and players are upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunsetting/#x5)
- The bank is sunsetting paper statements. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunsetting/#x6)

### note

Stands for "ending" or "shutting down". Different from watching a sunset. Past form is "sunsetted" or "sunset".

### In the corpora

- ["Sunsetting" means ending or discontinuing a product: the firm stops making or running it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sunsetting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunsetting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.