drop-off
a vertical or very steep descent: The trail has a drop-off of several hundred feet.
a decline; decrease: Sales have shown a considerable drop-off this year.
a place where a person or thing can be left, received, accommodated, etc.: a new drop-off for outpatients.
applied when a rented vehicle is left elsewhere than at the point of hire: to pay a drop-off charge.
Origin of drop-off
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How to use drop-off in a sentence
We drove back to L.A. through the Santa Monica Mountains on the Mulholland Highway, portions of which curve along steep drop-offs.
Less than 30 meters from where the ship is resting is the first of many terraced drop-offs that lead to 90-meter-deep waters.
Last Hope for Costa Concordia’s Missing as Ship Tanks Risk Bursting | Barbie Latza Nadeau | January 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for drop off
(intr) to grow smaller or less; decline
(tr) to allow to alight; set down
(intr) informal to fall asleep
a steep or vertical descent
a sharp decrease
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Other Idioms and Phrases with drop-off
Fall asleep, as in When I looked at Grandma, she had dropped off. [Early 1800s]
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