"phase down" meaning in English

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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "phasing down",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "phased down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phased down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "phase down (third-person singular simple present phases down, present participle phasing down, simple past and past participle phased down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
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          "word": "phasedown"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 November 13, Alok Sharma, “Alok Sharma’s remarks at the COP26 Closing Plenary”, in 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Government of the United Kingdom, retrieved 2021-11-13",
          "text": "We have also, for the first time, adopted text to scale up clean power and phase down dirty coal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 17, Adam Morton, “Getting rid of fossil fuels at a climate summit is harder than you’d think”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "The most significant step in that direction came in last year’s Glasgow pact, which reached a pained consensus supporting a “phase down of unabated coal power”. It did not land on that language until the final moments, when China and India demanded “phase out” be watered down to “phase down”. It was an ambush that drove the exhausted Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, to tears.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "To gradually reduce the size or scale of."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "gradually",
          "gradually"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To gradually reduce the size or scale of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "phase down"
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        "noun"
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      "word": "phasedown"
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      "form": "phases down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "phasing down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "phased down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "phased down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2021 November 13, Alok Sharma, “Alok Sharma’s remarks at the COP26 Closing Plenary”, in 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Government of the United Kingdom, retrieved 2021-11-13",
          "text": "We have also, for the first time, adopted text to scale up clean power and phase down dirty coal.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 17, Adam Morton, “Getting rid of fossil fuels at a climate summit is harder than you’d think”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "The most significant step in that direction came in last year’s Glasgow pact, which reached a pained consensus supporting a “phase down of unabated coal power”. It did not land on that language until the final moments, when China and India demanded “phase out” be watered down to “phase down”. It was an ambush that drove the exhausted Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, to tears.",
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      ],
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        "To gradually reduce the size or scale of."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To gradually reduce the size or scale of."
      ],
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  "word": "phase down"
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