rephasing

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noun

A restoration of the phase of a system.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rephase
nounrephasing (countable and uncountable, plural rephasings)

plural rephasings

  1. countableuncountableA restoration of the phase of a system.
  2. countableuncountableA change in the timing of a phased system (such as traffic lights).
  3. countableuncountablebusinessA rescheduling; especially, a rescheduling of debt repayments or other obligations.

    In addition, the [Executive] Board [of the International Monetary Fund] also approved a rephasing of the country's future disbursements into five equal amounts of SDR 27.6 million (about US$40.7 million).

    2005 June 9, “IMF Executive Board Completes Second Review Under Peru’s Stand-By Arrangement”, International Monetary Fund Press Release No. 05/137, reproduced in IMF Country Report No. 07/110 (2007 March)
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    Early in 1993, ATN [[[w:Atlantic Tele-Network|Atlantic Tele-Network]]] requested and obtained from the GOG [Government of Guyana] a rephasing of the programme. ATN made this request on the basis of suppliers’ delays, and theft and willful destruction of property locally. Thus, whereas the scope of agreed works remains unchanged, the time frames are no longer applicable. At least one implication of this rephasing is clear: at minimum, there must result a postponement of some of the benefits expected from the divestiture.

    1998, Gene O. Evelyn, “The Divestiture of the Guyana Telecommunications Corporation”, in Deryck R. Brown (editor), Evaluation, Learning and Caribbean Development, Canoe Press, page 430

    The Estimate shows a £20m increase in grants to the compensation Agency as a result of rephasing of non-cash provisions from 2009-10 and 2010-11 into 2008-09 (Estimate, p 381). ¶ […] No, this additional funding in 2008-09 is not treated as a call on the Reserve. It is a rephasing of the Agency’s CSR07 budget within the existing total.

    2009, House of Commons, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee: HC 90 The Work of the Committee in Session 2008–09, →ISBN, page 35

Origin

From rephase + -ing. The noun follows from the verb.

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