Synonym: doldrums, stagnancy. Similar words: stagnate, stagnant, stagnancy, resignation, designation, indignation, nation-state, nation. Meaning: [stæg'neɪʃn] 
n. 1. a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) 2. inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation.
n. 1. a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) 2. inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation. 
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1. For without progress there will be stagnation and decay.
2. Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative.
3. Stagnation in home sales is holding back economic recovery.
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4. Refreshing Breathing - to clear feelings of stagnation.
5. One powerful argument attributes this stagnation to the economic structure set in the early 1950s.
6. After decades of stagnation, there is a popular groundswell for speedy change and a market economy.
7. This offset the tendency towards stagnation generated by increased workers' savings.
8. There was a period of comparative stagnation in the nineties and a brief interruption following the financial panic in 1907.
9. But it did nothing to change the institutional stagnation which had been the result of consensus decision-making.
10. Such stagnation as there was in income percapita was offset by the increase in numbers.
11. Equally, stagnation in the housing market has been most severely felt in the south east.
12. Their country suffered years of economic stagnation and mismanagement under Communist rule.
13. The depressed market results in the stagnation of trade.
14. Poor economic policies led to a long period of stagnation and decline.
15. The three main diagnoses are those of government overload, adversary politics, and pluralist stagnation.
16. Evident in all aspects of the economy is the imbalance between the prosperity of the periphery and the stagnation of the centre.
17. I had to destroy, once and for all, the vicious circle of poverty and economic stagnation.
18. Throughout the 1950s newspapers continued to report the complaints of West Bank traders at the economic stagnation which resulted.
19. At home the sudden switch from inflation and boom to stagnation and slump in a few months made changes in policy inevitable.
20. Don't overdo it though - the flipside of stress is boredom, stagnation and low self-esteem.
21. As has already been mentioned, the land is associated with stasis and stagnation, with spiritual non-being.
22. This is not an unattainable ideal, but a goal which you must pursue in order to avoid stagnation.
23. But these processes of social progress are leaving millions behind in the familial ruts of stagnation.
24. It was the last upswing before the onset of slump, stagnation and mass unemployment.
25. This would weaken incentives and lead to periods of torpor and stagnation.
26. Nor did it follow a period of economic and demographic stagnation.
27. Prisons offer hundreds of new jobs and an influx of capital to areas faced with stagnation and long-term decline.
28. Yet the people targeted by them still live with economic stagnation, political repression, malnutrition and ecological crisis.
29. Desirelessness, or Hindu renunciation, it has been argued, leads to personal indifference and passivity and national poverty and stagnation.
30. They long for the stability of a period that in fact was known for stagnation and corruption under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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