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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



... Hickory, watchin' Killam crawl out and slip around a corner. But say, Mr. Ellins can make that "Huh!" of his mean a lot. He knows when he's been buffaloed, take it from me. My guess is that Rupert's stock is in for a bad slump. I'd quote him about ...
— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

... you do," he continued, "buy every share of Omega that is offered. There'll be a big block of it thrown on the market, and more in the afternoon. Buy it, whatever the price. There's likely to be a big slump. Don't bid for it—don't keep up the price, ...
— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott

... said Jean. "Of course, there are heaps of things one could slump money away on, hospitals and institutions and missions, but these are all so impersonal. I wonder, would it be pushing and furritsome, do you think, if I tried to help ministers a little?—ministers, I mean, with wives and families and small incomes shut away in country places and in the poor parts ...
— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)

... which his decolletee dame does not notice—till afterwards—a little curious as to the cost of the whole affair, and after a while, in a state of semi-somnolence, thinking a good deal of the events of the day and the Alpine attitude of the Bank rate or the slump in Consols. ...
— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

... upward into a half loop and rolled into position to fire at the leading attacker. The German was slow and Larkin poured a stream of lead into the cockpit. He saw the pilot stiffen, as one who has received a sudden shock or surprise, and then slump down. The plane thundered on for a moment, then nosed down, ...
— Aces Up • Covington Clarke


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