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    proper verb to "transition"

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    proper verb to "transition"

    [econ.]
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    Examples:

    guidance -- to guide
    transfer -- to transfer
    transition -- ???
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    What is the proper verb to the noun "transition"? Is there even one?

    thx in advance
    Authoralex_VIE (631048) 22 Sep 09, 21:21
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    there is no verb for transition
    #1AuthorNorthernLight22 Sep 09, 21:25
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    to transition - not pretty, but this neologism exists.
    #2AuthorJohn22 Sep 09, 21:55
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    I checked my Oxford dictionary. It doesn't show it as a verb. Where did you see it?
    #3AuthorNorthernLight22 Sep 09, 21:59
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    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tra...

    Merriam-Webster lists "transition" as both a noun and a verb and indicates the verb has been around since 1946.
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    * Main Entry: 2transition
    * Function: intransitive verb
    * Date: 1946

    : to make a transition (transition into college)

    Working in education at a high school, I have regularly heard transition used as a verb (and not by the students) with almost precisely this phrase/clause.
    #4Author Robert -- US (328606) 22 Sep 09, 22:07
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    ...an upper region of a preselected diameter, a lower region of a reduced diameter, and a transition region positioned between the upper and lower regions and having a diameter that transitions from said preselected diameter to said reduced diameter...

    http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP1492601.html
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    Bin auch gerade auf dieses Verb gestoßen.
    Je nach Zusammenhang lässt sich vielleicht auch was mit "transient" konstruieren - "be transient", "show transient behaviour" o.ä.
    #5AuthorCha-Cha (596739) 06 Oct 09, 15:35
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    This online dictionary lists transition as a verb too. I'd say it's a recent verb. I remember the days when 'impact' was only a noun and not a verb (at least in BE), and I'm not even that old!
    #6AuthorSP06 Oct 09, 15:39
    Suggestiontransition
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    Then what's the German word for the verb "to transition"?
    #7AuthorClyte19 Apr 10, 19:35
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    @ 7: Zum Beispiel: transitieren (Astrologie), übergehen, übertreten, überführen. Das hängt, wie immer, nicht zuletzt vom konkreten Kontext ab.
    #8Author mad (239053) 19 Apr 10, 23:51
    Suggestionübergeben
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    transition as a verb seems to be AE.

    Example: he documented, that he transitioned with you on Friday.
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    In dem Fall heisst es: übergeben, eine Übergabe (von Unterlagen vor einem Urlaub) machen
    #9AuthorMiriam20 Jan 11, 09:27
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    #6 "'impact' was only a noun and not a verb (at least in BE),"

    not to mention "access"
    and my UK bank "actions" requests....
    #10Authormikefm (760309) 20 Jan 11, 09:40
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    "Comment - there is no verb for transition

    #1AuthorNorthernLight"

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    It's been many years on, and sadly, the misuse of 'transition' as a verb has only gotten worse.... to my ears, it grates like coarse sandpaper on my head - and there is a perfectly good verb to use here - TRANSIT - to transit, it's the real verb. Any dictionary at all will support this idea 🙂

    #11Author Paullywog (1335325) 31 Aug 21, 07:13
     
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