slump
IPA: sɫˈʌmp
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "slump" in Sentences
- The assets of the company slumped rapidly.
- It might be due to the slump in the economy.
- Economic slump hits campus recruitment at Cochin varsity.
- At the same time, the international price of cocoa slumped.
- Mulroney really was the author of the Great Canadian Slump.
- The company has recently come out of a slump in the industry.
- The downturn was attributed to the slump in the housing sector.
- The Directors attempted to stop the slump with transfer dealings.
- Oddly, the songs following this slump are the best on the entire album.
- Eventually the burning kiosk slumped against the exterior of the building.
- 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.
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