Synonym: correct, decline, depression, drop-off, economic crisis, fall off, falling off, falloff, sink, slack, slide down, slouch. Similar words: plump, lumpy, slug, sluggish, translucent, jump, dump, pump. Meaning: [slʌmp] n. 1. a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality 2. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment. v. 1. assume a drooping posture or carriage 2. fall or sink heavily 3. fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly 4. go down in value.
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151. Industrial output in Germany, France and Italy, the three biggest economies in the euro-currency zone, is growing again following a year-long, manufacturing-led slump, data showed last week.
152. Even white truffles, the prized culinary delicacy , could not escape the slump.
153. Resume trading on the first day of air power to end slump.
154. There should be compensation for British farmers hit by the slump in demand.
155. And living with his parents rent-free allows him to start paying off debt he built up during the slump, he says.
156. Money held by households and firms is contracting - a harbinger of disinflation and slump.
157. Gravity flow deposits are consisted of thick dark-gray and gray slump deposits, ...
158. The girl addressed was trying, unsuccessfully, to slump against my shoulder.
159. Especially troublesome is a recent real estate slump, which has a knock-on effect on key sectors of the economy such as the steel and cement industries.
160. The current recession was triggered by a slump in consumer spending.
161. A cluster of Islamist parties combined support slump from 39 % to 29.5 %.
162. Aminobenzenesulfonic acid super-plasticizer is selected though cement paste test, which be provided with high water-reducing property, low slump loss and good compatibility with cement.
163. It was a garden-variety slump - lived and leaving few lasting scars.
164. It's a form of carbohydrate that offers illusionary energy,(sentencedict.com) only to cause a downhill slump once the initial burst has been worn off.
165. For even as car sales slump, German savers are pulling money from their safe, but staid, savings banks and entrusting it to their racy—if ropy —carmakers.
166. Boosting exports is a tried and true way of escaping recession. Unfortunately, it is difficult to do when the entire world is mired in a simultaneous slump.
167. Reliable statistics are hard to come by, not least because many factories operate in a legal netherworld, but the severity of the slump is plain.
168. Season in reincarnation, the spring breeze off the winter slump and desolation, outlines wonderful colors.
169. U.S. consumers, burdened by unemployment and a continuing housing slump, are unlikely to generate a new consumption boom.
170. Sunglass were also hit by the industry slump but maintained their place on optical store shelves.
171. But Japanese thriftiness has gone so far that it is undermining the nation's ability to surmount a deepening economic slump.
172. Summers said the jobless rate in this recession is running about 1 to 1.5 percentage points above what would normally be attributable to a slump of this magnitude.
173. However, the central bank warned the 18 - month housing slump could drag out.
174. Non-cricketing holidaymakers who feared an invasion of sports fans avoided the area, so the combined result was a tourism slump and lost rental income for home-owners.
175. Therefore, in an economic slump, the mobility of the poor precisely played a mature real estate market,(Sentence dictionary) the buffering effect of the bond market.
176. An opinion poll showed a dramatic slump in approval rating.
177. There has been a dismal flow of negative financial news throughout the week including a slump in factory orders and a steady decline in house prices.
178. A survey (from a teabag company obviously) showed this is when we suffer the morning slump, so reach for the biscuit tin without any guilt.
179. The panic was associated with call money reaching an astonishing 45 percent and a slump in the commodities market the world over.
180. Serials of naphthalin and tripolycyanamide have low water reducing efficiency, bad flow degree under low water cement ratio and sharp loss of concrete slump.
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