sterilised
IPA: stˈɛrʌɫaɪzd
adjective
- made infertile
- made free from live bacteria or other microorganisms
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Examples of "sterilised" in Sentences
- Such persons would instead be sterilised.
- It is not present in sterilised coco peat.
- He was the earliest advocate of sterilised gloves.
- He is sterilised as part of the vasectomy program.
- The report says many hospitals lack essentials, such as sterilised needles.
- The sterilised items leave the sterilisation chamber in a completely dry state.
- Many mine areas became permanently "sterilised" and the groundwater contaminated, he said.
- It was also suggested that not all the bond purchases would be sterilised, which is not what markets had been led to believe.
- But the central bank does also pledge that this programme will be "sterilised", with any new liquidity created ultimately being sucked out of the system.
- The ECB insists that its bond purchases are "sterilised" - meaning that they do not add stimulus or constitute quantitative easing - but this is a disputed point.
- This has been dubbed "sterilised" QE or "Operation Twist", after a 1960s programme in which the Treasury and the Fed tried to "twist" the yield curve by altering the pattern of Treasury-bond issuance.
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