"glide path" meaning in English

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      "glosses": [
        "the path of an aircraft as it lands under low power; especially, such a path advised to a pilot by radar assistance from the ground"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "path of an aircraft",
          "word": "ścieżka podejścia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "glissáda",
          "sense": "path of an aircraft",
          "word": "глисса́да"
        }
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        "the pattern of systematic withdrawal of money from a retirement portfolio"
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          "money",
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          "retirement",
          "retirement"
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          "portfolio",
          "portfolio"
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        "(economics, by extension) the pattern of systematic withdrawal of money from a retirement portfolio"
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      "glosses": [
        "a course that leads smoothly to a particular outcome"
      ],
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        "(figuratively, by extension) a course that leads smoothly to a particular outcome"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "glide path"
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      "form": "glide paths",
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        "the path of an aircraft as it lands under low power; especially, such a path advised to a pilot by radar assistance from the ground"
      ],
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          "path",
          "path"
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        [
          "aircraft",
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          "land",
          "land"
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        "the pattern of systematic withdrawal of money from a retirement portfolio"
      ],
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          "withdrawal",
          "withdrawal"
        ],
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        ],
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        ],
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          "portfolio"
        ]
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        "(economics, by extension) the pattern of systematic withdrawal of money from a retirement portfolio"
      ],
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        "broadly"
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      ]
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        "a course that leads smoothly to a particular outcome"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "path of an aircraft",
      "word": "ścieżka podejścia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "glissáda",
      "sense": "path of an aircraft",
      "word": "глисса́да"
    }
  ],
  "word": "glide path"
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