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单词 to age out
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to age out
to age out U.S. (a) transitive (chiefly in passive) to compel (a person) to leave a position, institution, etc., on the grounds of age; (b) intransitive (esp. of a child) to pass the upper age limit that is allowable or usual for some classification or activity; to become too old for or grow out of the thing specified.
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1953 Lima (Ohio) News 17 May 8 b/1 They are usually destined to retire as colonels, or perhaps get one star as they are aged-out.
1955 Frederick (Maryland) Post 12 July 2/1 The Frederick Little League All-Stars team..for two successive years swept to the state championship..then aged out of the Little classification.
1988 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 20 Nov. v. 5 By 1980, that crime wave had lost its force as the baby boomers ‘aged out’ of crime.
1994 New Yorker 19 Sept. 70/3 Once students reach fifteen they ‘age out’ and are automatically sent on to high school.
2010 A. L. Begun & J. P. Mersky in J. Caspi Sibling Devel. (2011) ii. xv. 326 Roughly 20,000 youth are ‘aged out’ of the foster care system each year.
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