Dictionary Thesaurus Word Dynamo Quotes Reference Translator Spanish

slump

[sluhmp]

Example Sentences Origin

verb (used without object)

to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.

to assume a slouching, bowed, or bent position or posture: Stand up straight and don't slump!

to decrease or fall suddenly and markedly, as prices or the market.

to decline or deteriorate, as health, business, quality, or efficiency.

to sink into a bog, muddy place, etc., or through ice or snow.

EXPAND

to sink heavily, as the spirits.

COLLAPSE

noun

an act or instance of slumping.

a decrease, decline, or deterioration.

a period of decline or deterioration.

10.

any mild recession in the economy as a whole or in a particular industry.

11.

a period during which a person performs slowly, inefficiently, or ineffectively, especially a period during which an athlete or team fails to play or score as well as usual.

EXPAND

12.

a slouching, bowed, or bent position or posture, especially of the shoulders.

13.

a landslide or rockslide.

14.

the vertical subsidence of freshly mixed concrete that is a measure of consistency and stiffness.

15.

New England Cookery. a dessert made with cooked fruit, especially apples or berries, topped with a thick layer of biscuit dough or crumbs.

COLLAPSE

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Slump is one of our favorite verbs.

So is bowdlerise. Does it mean:

to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about.

to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

LEARN MORE FUN, UNUSUAL VERBS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Origin:
1670–80; orig., to sink into a bog or mud; perhaps imitative (compare plump²)

Related forms

un·slumped, adjective

un·slump·ing, adjective

Synonyms
8. lapse, reverse, setback.

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source

Link To slump

Example Sentences

While there has been a big slump recently in the retail price of sugar, the price at refineries has not dropped.

But that slump helped him get involved with research.

Old drugs are falling from favour, new ones are growing, and the economic slump may shake things up again.

EXPAND

While there has been a big slump recently in the retail price of sugar, the price at refineries has not dropped.

But that slump helped him get involved with research.

Old drugs are falling from favour, new ones are growing, and the economic slump may shake things up again.

The slump may also exacerbate economic pressures that can damage the environment, he added.

Of course every actual slump has particular causes of its own but certain general causes are always present.

Amid a flash of fireworks, what's left of him falls to the ground in an anticlimactic slump.

They sort of slump down in the box, making a low, miserable hum.

And the company's share price held up in the bleakest slump the industry has ever seen.

New data provided fresh evidence of the housing market's slump even as the broader economy is squeezed by higher prices.

While the academic job market has been in a slump in recent years, the consulting industry has been booming for the last decade.

Most have by now picked up the stylised fact that a rigid adherence to the gold standard made a bad slump worse.

They get you out of an energy slump and make you more alert.

Often there is an accompanying slump in occupational, cognitive or visual-spatial skills.

Online brokerages have taken the prolonged stock market slump on the chin, as people are trading less and opening fewer accounts.

Much, of course, depends on the length and severity of the current slump.

The slump in the building trades in the past six months contrasts with an odd perkiness earlier.

Ford has survived the market slump largely because of its financial reserves, but it will have to sell some cars to thrive again.

Housing sales will slump and the interest rate will drop to encourage people to lend money.

The slump may slow this trend down, but not change its direction.

And large chunks of volcanic islands break off or slump during their geological evolution.

Staring at recession, policymakers in rich economies are considering how to avoid a prolonged slump.

And the company's share price held up in the bleakest slump the industry has ever s een.

Now the race is on to ease monetary policy in order to prevent a prolonged economic slump.

Germany's recent history shows how hard it is for a member of the euro club to recover from a cost-induced slump.

The subsequent slump is now forgotten: prices are back close to the peaks.

The economic slump has meant a growing share of the world's population is going.

Now they are being squeezed once more, and this time the slump may last.

Matters have been made worse by a recent slump in tobacco prices.

During a deep slump an expansionary monetary policy will raise both domestic and world output.

Economic growth has slowed, but the country has withstood the global slump well.

The world economy's deepest post-war slump has resulted in higher rates of unemployment in many countries.

The p/e ratio has reached such a high level because share prices have rebounded even as profits continue to slump.

Whether this remains a median-scale slump depends on what happens next, and the prognosis remains grim.

One reason is that it was a bit-part player in the system of global imbalances that precipitated the slump.

Over the past six months the global slump seemed to prove the sceptics right.

One is that maintaining a fixed exchange rate in the midst of a slump is suicidal.

America's housing slump is not yet yesterday's news, and looking ahead, a bit of caution seems warranted.

On past form the slowdown seemed likely to presage a long slump.

Americans are out of work because the slump was deep and the recovery has been lacklustre.

They are emerging as the prime victims of the slump.

In other words, the growth rate in consumer spending will slump by two percentage points between early this year and next.

Worse, the malaise may go far deeper than the short-term effects of a slump in demand.

Manchester has received much public money over the years to recover from a post-industrial slump.

Buying by investors has more than made up for a slump in gold-jewellery purchases in key.

COLLAPSE

Collins

World English Dictionary

slump (slʌmp)

—vb
1.	to sink or fall heavily and suddenly
2.	to relax ungracefully
3.	(of business activity, etc) to decline suddenly; collapse
4.	(of health, interest, etc) to deteriorate or decline suddenly or markedly
5.	(of soil or rock) to slip down a slope, esp a cliff, usually with a rotational movement

—n
6.	a sudden or marked decline or failure, as in progress or achievement; collapse
7.	a decline in commercial activity, prices, etc
8.	economics another word for depression
9.	the act of slumping
10.	a slipping of earth or rock; landslide

[C17: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Low German slump bog, Norwegian slumpa to fall]

Slump (slʌmp)

—n
	the Slump another name for the Depression

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Etymonline

Word Origin & History

slump

1677, "fall or sink into a muddy place," probably from a Scand. source, cf. Norw. and Dan. slumpe "fall upon," Swed. slumpa; perhaps ultimately of imitative origin. The noun meaning "heavy decline in prices on the stock exchange" is from 1888; generalized to "sharp decline in trade or business" 1922.

EXPAND

COLLAPSE

Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com

Searching for slump?
How many words do you actually know?

FIND OUT

Related Words

diversification

flag

Matching Quote

"One is not the same parent at forty-five that one was at twenty-five. Personalities and emotional rhythms are buffeted not simply by internal forces but by external pressures as well: an economic slump, the death of a spouse, sudden illness—all sharpen or soften the contours of our lives."

-Victoria Secunda

Partners:Word Bloglines Citysearch The Daily Beast Ask Answers Ask Kids Life123 Sendori Thesaurus

About Privacy Policy Terms of Use API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Help