Lexic.us

Definition of Ageing

1. Noun. Acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time.

2. Adjective. Growing old.

3. Noun. The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age.

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

age of reason age rating age ratings age spot age standardized rate age standardized rates aged aged(a) aged R-value agedly

agedness agednesses ageest ageful ageinest ageing (current term) ageings ageinst ageism ageisms

ageist ageists agelasimine agelasimines agelast agelastatin agelastic agelasts ageless agelessly

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 ..."

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