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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.

Origin:
stagn(ate) + -ation

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Example Sentences

Medicare reform, tax reform, wage stagnation or polarization.

Even if continuing stagnation should slow greenhouse gas-caused climate change, the damage already done is extremely serious.

Now, unless panic spreads about euro zone banks, the fear is of a long period of stagnation in the developed world.

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Medicare reform, tax reform, wage stagnation or polarization.

Even if continuing stagnation should slow greenhouse gas-caused climate change, the damage already done is extremely serious.

Now, unless panic spreads about euro zone banks, the fear is of a long period of stagnation in the developed world.

Those range from putting filters on taps to remove lead, to flushing water fountains after a period of stagnation.

Stagnation is not the stuff that science is made of.

And over a long period of time, new royal blood may save termite colonies from the stagnation of inbreeding.

So health benefits can't come close to explaining the recent pay stagnation.

Cultural and political stagnation presses painfully.

While short-term stimulus is important, long-term stagnation is an enemy that should also be fought.

New oil wealth masks stagnation in the rest of the economy and widespread poverty.

The problem with the average-size corporation is that eventually the preservers take over and stagnation sets in.

Rich-world governments see it as a way of staving off stagnation.

The uncomfortable stagnation of too much time spent behind a desk begins to rise.

Watch out for a continuation of this nasty recession and stagnation.

One bad thing about high attrition rates is that it leads to a lot of academic stagnation.

The front hole is placed in the airstream to measure what's called the stagnation pressure.

In the narrow sense, the solution to the stagnation of median income will not be a political one.

The alternative, he says, is a decade of stagnation and decline.

The industrial stagnation which has affected other sections of the country has not, as yet, troubled this place.

But the past four years have seen a fall back into stagnation.

Formerly, with the close of navigation, dullness and stagnation came upon us.

Economic stagnation and uncertainty about the future are creating unanticipated political alliances, an economist writes.

Its stagnation brought high unemployment among the young, a sharp decline in tax.

It was the third straight month of virtual stagnation.

The agreement also reflects the gradual reawakening of the satellite business after two years of stagnation.

Stasis and dogmatism were seen as recipes for stagnation and collapse.

The economy needs another stiff dose of fiscal stimulus to shake off the current stagnation.

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World English Dictionary

stagnate (stæɡˈneɪt, ˈstæɡˌneɪt)

—vb
	(intr) to be or to become stagnant

stag'nation

—n

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Medical Dictionary

stagnation stag·na·tion (stāg-nā'shən)
n.

The retardation or cessation of the flow of blood in the blood vessels, as in passive congestion.
The accumulation of a normally circulating fluid in a part or an organ.

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"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."

-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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