scrap a programme
Frequency: 6.77.2 per million words
to get rid of a programme that is no longer useful or wanted
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- The government says it will scrap all of its nuclear programmes.
- The company decided to scrap the failing marketing programme after poor results.
- City officials are considering whether to scrap the unpopular public transport programme.
- The new administration is expected to scrap several old government programmes inherited from the previous one.
- Due to severe budget cuts, they had no choice but to scrap the entire research programme.
- Environmental activists urged the factory to scrap its polluting production programme immediately.
- The school board voted unanimously to scrap the controversial arts programme.
- Scrapping the old training programme allowed for the implementation of a more modern one.
- If the pilot phase doesn't show promising results, we will have to scrap the entire programme.
- The minister announced his intention to scrap the failing youth employment programme.