1949,Proceedings of the ... Consolidated Convention of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America, page159:
The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone andeliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
1977 June 13,Computerworld, volume11, number24, page91:
The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; fromeliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction;[…]
2002, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Wolfgang Fritz, Ruby Roy Dholakia,Global E-commerce and Online Marketing: Watching the Evolution:
[…] it should be possible toeliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.
2020 August 4, Jason Schreier, “Blizzard Employees Share Salaries With Each Other to Protest Wage Disparities”, inTime[2]:
Last year, the companyeliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go.
(transitive,military) Torender (a facility) unusable, todestroy it; todisable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors,Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences,→ISBN,page 7:
In one study, 65.8% of the cat owners relinquishing a cat thought that their cateliminated outside the litter box or destroyed furniture to spite them.
(transitive) Toexclude (from investigation or from further competition).
Bill waseliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
John waseliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
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