I.away [Brit əˈweɪ, Am əˈweɪ]ADVAway often appears in English as the second element of a verb (run away, put away, get away, look away, give away etc.): for translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (run, put, get, look, give etc.). - Away often appears after a verb in English to show that an action is continuous or intense: if away does not change the basic meaning of the verb, only the verb is translated: he was snoring away = russava; if away does change the basic meaning of the verb (he's grinding away at his maths), consult the appropriate verb entry.
Ford also pledged to do away with the city's century-old fair-wage policy, which required that private contractors be paid the same as union employees.
Newer interpretations of quantum mechanics have been formulated that do away with the concept of wavefunction collapse (see, for example, the relative state interpretation).