Synonym: descent, fail, fall, hill, refuse, reject, run down, sink, slant, slope, weaken. Antonym: accept. Similar words: declare, cling, clinic, clinical, inclination, line, line up, outline. Meaning: [dɪ'klaɪn] n. 1. change toward something smaller or lower 2. a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state 3. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current 4. a downward slope or bend. v. 1. grow worse 2. refuse to accept 3. show unwillingness towards 4. grow smaller 5. go down 6. go down in value 7. inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives".
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211, As public confidence in his capacity to reign has plummeted, Charles' decline has dragged the monarchy down with him.
212, The study also notes a steady decline in the number of college students taking political science courses or enrolling in law schools.
213, The May figure of £6,659 million was a 24 percent decline from April's £8,728 million.
214, Institutionally cultivated individual career strategies for organizational dominance contribute to organizational decline.
215, By 2001 this younger group are expected to decline in absolute numbers by some 238,000 - around 5%.
216, Today, the redundancy legislation is used to reduce the labour force because of economic decline.
217, With bigger fish in serious decline, mackerel, sardines and anchovies are now the main targets.
218, In the absence of soil conservation, the productivity of these lands w ill inevitably decline rapidly.
219, Much of the rise in commercial paper outstanding is a counterpart to the decline in bank lending.
220, Gloucester Docks was a thriving port until the 1960's, when it went into decline as traffic moved to the motorways.
221, Moreover, the resulting decline in council housing has begun to lead to the rise of the ghetto.
222, Unless the slope of the baseline drift is very steep the decline has few practical consequences except to sharpen competitive pressures.
223, That increase ended a dramatic decline from 2. 7 million metric tons in May 1994.
224, Its final decline was brought about by a change in the public attitude to death.
225, A satisfactory surplus has been achieved and the effect of the decline in membership and examination entries has been contained.
226, One influential argument about urban decline has been put forward by Fothergill and Gudgin and their associates.
227, The importance of this role is likely to be greater in times of economic decline.
228, From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident.
229, They had brought a modest decline in the face of extreme boom conditions, but no collapse.
230, At the same time,[www.Sentencedict.com] a gradual decline set in with the advent of freight transportation on the roads.
231, The red spruce decline was continuing though it was statistically leveling off, since most of the spruce were already dead.
232, Why? Despite their decline in numbers, department stores remain attractive tenants.
233, During the coming decade output from the Statfjord, Frigg and Ekofisk fields will decline and replacement revenue earners are therefore vital.
234, Firms with large debts may not have the financial strength to survive a prolonged sales decline or a recession.
235, During the last ten years, the construction industry has been in decline.
236, It refers to urban decline and work on rural and coastal areas.
237, Within the arable area the greatest changes have been the increase of cereals and the decline of the one-year clover ley.
238, Eggs Per capita egg consumption has continued to decline in the past decade.
239, But with foreign assistance to developing world agriculture in decline, that will be harder.
240, The losses which the decline in consumer demand initially entails will cause a decline in the demand for resources in that industry.