slump

IPA: sɫˈʌmp

A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
(slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
(UK, dialect) A boggy place.
(Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
(Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.

(intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
(intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
(intransitive) To slouch or droop.
(transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
(transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.

Examples of "slump" in Sentences

If they lose that incentive there might be a short term slump as inventories are drawn down.
Sentiment in the financial community in Germany drops again as a slump is expected, reports Commerzbank.
A recent story about how the car sales slump is affecting Japanese automakers had different mileage figures.
Yet, for all its simplicity, the insight that a slump is about an excess demand for money makes nonsense of the whole hangover theory.
Kidd said the slump is a little frustrating because he feels he is getting good looks and taking good shots but the ball isn't going in.
But Williams, mired in a shooting slump from the field, then made his two free throws as the Cavs, who are a league-best 33-4 at home, finally put away the Bucks.
London, said the global financial crisis had also resulted in falling expenditure, lack of credit and rising unemployment causing what it described as a slump in confidence and demand in the travel and tourism industry.
One reason securitization remains in a slump is because private bond investors remain wary after getting burned on CDOs and because of the dispute with banks over allegedly faulty underwriting standards during the mortgage boom.