Eliminate \E*lim"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eliminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Eliminating}.] [L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See {Limit}.] 1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. --Young.
2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. --Lowth.
4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]
5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
"As commander of the armed forces I exhort every single soldier in a total offensive to destroy the enemy, eliminate him, wipe out his will to fight," Samudio said.
McCain said Congress has enough problems at the moment without exempting itself from laws that eliminate bias and discrimination.
A treaty to eliminate most tariff barriers between the United States and Canada leaves disputes in the auto industry unresolved, witnesses at a House hearing said.
As part of the cost-cutting, Du Pont Engineering said it will eliminate "lower-priority work," as well as shift production engineering and design to outside contractors.
That seems to assume that the resulting higher payroll costs would not eliminate jobs.
Because voice messaging can forward calls to be recorded if a subscriber's line is busy, company officials say they expect the new service will eliminate the need for answering machines, which do not have that capability.
Attacks in the official press accusing Solidarity of overly aggressive campaign tactics began after the first show May 9 in which union spokesman Janusz Onyskiewicz told voters how to choose Solidarity candidates and eliminate official ones.
Less-invasive, or endoscopic, surgery involves using tiny instruments and optical devices that eliminate the need for major incisions.
A spokesman for Labatt said this will eliminate some duplication in marketing and sales activities that currently exists.
The company has said that it will eliminate socalled deep well injection of hazardous waste by the year 2000.
Salinas said the government will eliminate subsidies for basic food products in stages over the next six months because it lacks the money to finance them.
The nationalized coal company said several of the code's provisions were "clarified" to eliminate misunderstanding and correct misrepresentations made by leaders of the National Union of Mineworkers.
Bob Djurdjevic, president of Annex Research Inc. in Phoenix, predicted IBM might announce plans to eliminate about 20,000 jobs, paying for the streamlining program with a charge of perhaps more than $1 billion against fourth-quarter earnings.
Sources familiar with USAir and its agreement with Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Piedmont said that while USAir is eager to eliminate TWA as a major shareholder, it could be difficult for the company to buy back TWA's USAir shares.
A company spokesman said the decision to eliminate the dividend resulted from a quarterly appraisal and that circumstances had changed since the December announcement.
Security Pacific National Bank will restructure its retail banking efforts in a move that bank insiders said could eliminate several hundred jobs.
"The person most probably is not involved in the incident, but we would very much would like to talk to him in an effort to eliminate him and pursue other investigative avenues," Petersen said.
Vicorp said it wants to eliminate the $4.4 million it pays in annual dividends on the preferred shares.
By increasing the customer's role, telephone companies hope to hold down labor costs and eliminate installation delays.
However, several businessmen said the changes don't eliminate the greatest obstacles to Western firms. "You've got to be able to repatriate profits and guarantee a supply of materials locally," said John Burgess of Midland Bank PLC.
Such bonds would eliminate the interest-rate premium lenders now demand to cover the risk of future dollar depreciation which would dock the repayment value.
"It's hard to eliminate the adversarial approach entirely, but we have a common purpose," says Mr. Murphy, "an agreement that both sides can live with."
The secretary's goal is to eliminate some layers in the military's top management and establish "a clear chain of command" in the arms procurement process, said one Defense Department official familiar with Cheney's thinking.
He made his national reputation as Ronald Reagan's secretary of education, running an agency the president once said he would eliminate.
Guy Gannett Publishing Co. plans to eliminate 90 workers at its Portland, Maine, newspapers early next year due to declining ad revenue and plans to merge the two papers.
"If the problem remains one of substance, then there is no need for us to eliminate our symbols and our name," said Tortorella.
The expert told the court that questions such as whether women could provide adequate medical records and other evidence would eliminate tens of thousands of claims from all but minimal compensation.
The government will gradually eliminate its stake in the airline over the next three years, after which foreigners would be allowed to take a majority position if they elect to do so.
Airport commissioners hired experts from the Department of Agriculture's Animal Damage Control unit _ pigeon killers as they're known by some airport workers _ to eliminate birds of a feather.
In other matters, Hardy said she and the Department of Health and Human Services were unable to get included in President Reagan's fiscal 1990 budget a proposal to eliminate a Social Security's earnings test.