built-in obsolescence

Noun

Meaning

built-in obsolescence (uncountable)

planned obsolescence

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale. Lewis Mumford

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence. Vikas Swarup

Close letter words and terms

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