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downslide

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down⋅slide

  [doun-slahyd]
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–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).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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