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down⋅slide

[doun-slahyd]
–noun
a decline or downward trend, as of prices.

Origin:
1925–30; down 1 + slide
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down·slide   (doun'slīd')   
n.  A downward course; a decline: "a growing concern among . . . board leaders about whether the economy could be headed for a downslide" (Andrée Brooks).
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