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stagnation

[ stag-ney-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow:
Meteorologists forecast ozone and air stagnation.
a foulness or staleness, as one emanating from a standing pool of water.
a failure to develop, progress, or advance:
periods of economic stagnation followed by bursts of growth.
the state or quality of being or feeling sluggish and dull:
Happily, they have been able to avoid stagnation in their ten-year marriage.

Republicans must seize this opportunity to pass legislation to improve the economic stagnation.

The Taliban, power cuts, corruption, economic stagnation, Osama bin Laden, all of it.

Others face career uncertainty and stagnation as promotion rates continue to drop for both enlisted and officers.

India expects Modi to deliver the country from economic stagnation.

So this is Obama, hope and change, stock market rallies for the top five percent, and wage stagnation for the rest.

This is a state of affairs tending to produce stagnation and vigorously to check advance.

He was a savage still, and at the close of the struggle he settled down into a second stage of stagnation.

Once reached, it tended to continue indefinitely, stagnation following the era of growth.

While talking to this officer, a lieutenant, he contrived to interest him with an account of the stagnation of trade.

This remarkable contrast between the progress of the north-east and the stagnation of the rest of the country is no new thing.

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