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• n  the act of gradually lowering the size or amount
  the doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose
• v  diminish gradually
• v  give a point to
• s  becoming gradually narrower
  long tapering fingers
• s  gradually decreasing until little remains

• As countries meet their targets for an anti-flu-pandemic Tamiflu stockpile, global demand for the drug is tapering off.
• Its columns were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft.
• The secondary goal: by pushing students through a tapering hierarchy of schoolspoor, better, bestthe country's finest test-takers are decanted into the best jobs in .

• taper
• sharpen
• point
• tapered
• narrowing
• dwindling
• tapering off

News & Articles

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• Latin America Can Handle Fed Tapering, IMF’s Western Hemisphere Head Says
  The head of the International Monetary Fund’s Western Hemisphere Department says Latin America is well-positioned to handle market swings related to expectations of Fed "tapering."
  June 10, 2013 - Wall Street Journal Blogs
• Fed Tapering Could Mean Instant Problems for China
  The impact of the tapering of the Federal Reserve's massive quantitative easing could be major for China,leading to the risk of a liquidity squeeze in the world's second largest economy, according to Societe Generale.
  June 7, 2013 - CNBC
• Fed Tapering Means Instant Problems for China
  The impact of the tapering of the Federal Reserve's massive quantitative easing could be major for China,leading to the risk of a liquidity squeeze in the world's second largest economy, according to Societe ...
  June 7, 2013 - CNBC via Yahoo! Finance