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obsoleto
adj. obsolete, outdated, no longer in use


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obsoleto
adj. obsolete, ancient, archaic; no longer in use


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obsoleto
adj. obsolete, outdated; old, passe; antique, antiquated
 
obsoletar
v. become obsolescent

A Spanish -> English Dictionary (Granada University, Spain), 7.7Download this dictionary
obsoleto
= anachronistic, obsolete, outdated [out-dated], outmoded, redundant, out of touch with + reality, timed, passé, out of vogue, out of fashion, out of style, dated, byzantine, moth-eaten, mothy [mothier -comp., mothiest -sup.], musty [mustier -comp., mustiest -sup.].
Ex: We might all easily agree that LITERATURE, IMMORAL is not particularly descriptive of, and an anachronistic euphemism for, PORNOGRAPHY.
Ex: To remove obsolete fine records from the online system, there is a programm to find all fines paid before a particular date and to remove them.
Ex: For example, the outdated subject heading 'Female emancipation' could be changed to the newer term 'Women's liberation' with this function.
Ex: With computerization some libraries took the opportunity to replace outmoded abstracts bulletins with SDI services.
Ex: The card-based systems in which post-coordinate indexing was first conceived are more-or-less redundant.
Ex: Some librarians seem to be out of touch with reality.
Ex: Librarians need to be vociferous about achievements and services offered in order to dispel ideas about the stereotype librarian, timed and out of touch with contemporary society.
Ex: By conscious or unconscious fixation on this single, already passé, facet of data processing technology we risk totally ignoring the other functions of a catalog.
Ex: In general, however, the author's approach to his comparative method -- that comparativism is out of vogue -- is rather parochial.
Ex: Abstract art has lately been considered out of fashion in the art centers of New York.
Ex: Ten years ago ambition abounded; now risk-taking is out of style and vanguardism has been dampened by a pervasive enthusiasm for the past.
Ex: Now, many of these libraries find that their systems are dangerously dated.
Ex: Those elderly bureaucrats and their byzantine procedures are cherished by the customers, who tend to be uninterested in the arcane details of 'digital,' and so are relentlessly passé themselves.
Ex: He said: 'The outer shell of democracy is, no doubt, intact but it appears to be moth-eaten from inside'.
Ex: So, he cleaned the bird cage from top to bottom and threw out all the mothy bird seed.
Ex: Only if we continuously redefine our goals in accordance with the developments in our societies will we remain dynamic libraries and not turn into musty institutions.
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* hacer que sea obsoleto = render + obsolete, render + redundant.
* quedarse obsoleto = be overtaken by events, outgrow.
* volverse obsoleto = go out of + date, become + obsolete, go out of + fashion, obsolesce.


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