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Slump   /sləmp/   Listen
Slump

noun
1.
A noticeable deterioration in performance or quality.  Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slack.  "A gradual slack in output" , "A drop-off in attendance" , "A falloff in quality"
2.
A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment.  Synonyms: depression, economic crisis.
verb
(past & past part. slumped; pres. part. slumping)
1.
Assume a drooping posture or carriage.  Synonym: slouch.
2.
Fall or sink heavily.  Synonyms: sink, slide down.  "My spirits sank"
3.
Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly.  Synonyms: fall off, sink.
4.
Go down in value.  Synonyms: correct, decline.  "Prices slumped"






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"Slump" Quotes from Famous Books



... variations; the New Patriotism which has made the Tory Lion and the Liberal Lamb lie down together in peace, side by side, paying each other compliments; the good-girl tactics of the suffragettes; the surprising slump in murders and every sort of crime; possible raids of Zeppelins; and the amusingly persistent legend of Russians in France; the same things which were being discussed at that very moment, no doubt, in every household high and low, from one end of Great Britain ...
— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... cedar, In rings of moonlit green.... What bilge, you say, good reader? My very dear old bean, Think of the state of Prices, Think of the slump in Trade, Turn to the Paris Crisis, Ponder the cost of ices And ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 25, 1919 • Various

... and a stage for plays we will get up ourselves, and a movie machine. I'm to find out how to run one and teach them, and then he'll rent reels and open it twice a week. The big hole that will cave in on the north side of Multiopolis soon now will be caused by the slump when our neighbourhood withdraws its patronage and begins being entertained by Peter. And you'll see that it ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

... toward macroeconomic adjustment, in 1992 the reform drive stalled as Algiers became embroiled in political turmoil. In September 1993, a new government was formed, and one priority was the resumption and acceleration of the structural adjustment process. Buffeted by the slump in world oil prices and burdened with a heavy foreign debt, Algiers concluded a one-year standby arrangement with the IMF in ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... modern sanctity and inviolability attending and surrounding human life are at a discount. Even for children, the grim King of Terrors had become a bugaboo to laugh at; red wounds and ghastly sights are things of everyday experience; there is a slump in mortality. ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves


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