discontinued 中断了的, 已停止的
discontinued[ adj ]
stopped permanently or temporarily
<adj.all>
discontinued modelsa discontinued magazine
a discontinued conversation
Discontinue \Dis`con*tin"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Discontinued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discontinuing}.] [Cf. F.
discontinuer.]
To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice
or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease
using, to stop; to leave off.
Set up their conventicles again, which had been
discontinued. --Bp. Burnet.
I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth. --Shak.
Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these
parts the space of seven hundred years. --Daniel.
They modify and discriminate the voice, without
appearing to discontinue it. --Holder.
- Commenting in a telephone interview from Proctor-Silex headquarters in Richmond, Va., Dreyfus said the recalled models were made in 1985 and 1986 and have since been discontinued.
- Third-quarter results include net from continuing operations of $854,669, or seven cents a share; a loss from discontinued operations of $3.6 million; and a gain of $337,993 from repurchasing debentures.
- The company said it expects those losses to narrow as a result of the planned layoffs, discontinued operations, post-Gulf war travel, and lower fuel prices.
- The year-earlier quarter had net of $48.7 million, or $1.93 a share, including about $41 million in after-tax earnings from discontinued operations, mainly the records subsidiary that was sold off last January.
- At GenCorp, income from discontinued operations added $1 million to net this year, down from $212 million last year.
- In the year-earlier fourth quarter, Mediq had profit from continuing operations of $1.8 million, or seven cents a share, before a loss from discontinued operations of $2.8 million produced a net loss $958,000 on revenue of $70.6 million.
- The company cited discontinued orders from International Business Machines Corp.
- In the year-earlier quarter, the company had a net loss of $19.2 million, including profit of $1.7 million from discontinued operations.
- For the year, Cordis reported net income of $2.4 million, against a fiscal 1987 loss of $56.1 million that included a $54.3 million loss from discontinued operations.
- Year-ago figures include $707,000, or three cents a share, from discontinued operations.
- Net income, including discontinued operations, was $7.16 a share, up from $4.29 a share.
- Outlet said it had discontinued the services of financial adviser First Boston Corp., which had been exploring a possible sale, merger or other alternatives.
- A $59.4 million loss on discontinued operations, mainly from settling a lawsuit relating to a business that has been sold, made its net income $10.8 million, or 36 cents a share.
- Grow Group said that the spinoff will result in the company reporting a first-quarter loss from discontinued operations of $4.1 million, representing the two units' anticipated loss for the current three-month period.
- National Imaging Inc. said it discontinued its merger negotiations with a leasing company it declined to identify.
- Including losses from discontinued operations, Avon's net income for 1987 was $159.1 million, or $2.26 a share.
- Year-earlier earnings were hurt by discontinued operations, primarily from depressed agricultural chemical sales, that reduced earnings by $9.4 million.
- Consumers and Bechtel proposed in October 1987 to form Palisades to help resolve disputes stemming from Consumers' discontinued Midland nuclear plant project, on which Bechtel was a contractor.
- A spokesman said trading in the shares was discontinued after the close of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, where they finished at $48.125, up 25 cents.
- The net loss includes a loss from discontinued operations of about $2.4 million related to its South Burlington, Vt., custom assembly business.
- Results for both periods included small gains from discontinued operations.
- The year-to-year net income comparisons are skewed because the company reported net gains in 1989 from disposal of discontinued operations.
- Including losses from discontinued operations, the company posted a net loss of $103,000 on sales of $17.4 million for the first quarter ended March 17.
- The earnings from continuing operations were much brighter, however, at $283 million vs. $230 million, because last year May had $46 million in earnings from discontinued operations in the fourth quarter.
- After a $10.9 million loss from discontinued operations, net income was $6.7 million, or 34 cents a share.
- In the year-ago period, profit from discontinued operations of $10.2 million made net income $17.9 million, or 50 cents a share.
- After formal Protestant and Catholic services were discontinued at the youth center some time ago, Lockhart said, he instead met weekly with from four to eight youths.
- Fourth-quarter 1989 earnings also were reduced by $9.5 million in charges to cover the writeoff of discontinued printing equipment as well as revisions to the estimated tax rate and certain liabilities and reserves for the year.
- The latest quarter's results include a loss from continuing operations of $33.2 million and a gain from discontinued operations of $3.8 million.
- Almost $23 million of that loss came from the sale of discontinued operations.