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Meaning slump meaning

What does slump mean?

slump

— verb assume a drooping posture or carriage — noun (= slack, drop-off, falloff) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality the team went into a slump a gradual slack in output a drop-off in attendance a falloff in quality — verb (= fall off) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly The real estate market fell off — verb (= sink) fall or sink heavily He slumped onto the couch My spirits sank — verb (= correct) go down in value the stock market corrected prices slumped — noun (= depression) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

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Topics slump topics

What do people use slump to talk about?
States Quantity More

Decrease
Work and occupation Business organization

Economics
Physical actions Posture Straight posture

Relaxed posture

Conjugation slump conjugation

How do you conjugate slump?

slump · verb

Examples slump examples

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Simple sentences

The company is caught up in a serious business slump.
The stock market is in a prolonged slump.
In the current slump, economic growth has fallen to zero percent.
Don't slump.
Don't slump in your chair.

Movie subtitles

Mickey Mantle's in a slump?
ALL RIGHT, I SLUMP IN MY CHAIR.
If Lewis ever snaps out of this slump. he'll team with Tom Russell in the pivot position.
Superman, you're just in a slump!
Superman, you're just in a slump.
Just slump down.
Skip, I know I'm in a goddamn slump, but I hit the ball hard today.
OK, so I've been in a little bit of a slump.
Johnny, every business has a slump at one time or another.
No slump, Charlie.
Because of the property slump, 25,000 estate agents, who were safely confined in offices have been forced out into the community.
Bonnie, he's in a slump.
This is a slump.
When you get into a slump, you get out of it eventually.
You know, a little slump.
All right my posture is bad, all right I slump in my chair.
Everybody can have a slump.
A slump!
A slump.
The coach we're all depending on to pull Rydell out of the seven-season slump, our very own Coach Calhoun.
I saw him slump over the steering wheel.
He's in a definite slump.
You're just in a slump, that's all.
What? No. Just a little slump.
I'm in a slump.
The slump!
The coach we're all depending on to pull Rydell out of a seven-season slump, our very own Coach Calhoun.
Now, when you get up there, keep your hands up, stand straight, don't slump, so that everyone can see you.
Every so often, the mud at the top would come down in a slump, picking up the animals, bringing them down here, killing them and burying them and preserving them in the mud.
A slump in pictures has hit them.
When you get into a slump, you get out of it eventually. You don't give up.
Put your knife and fork down straight if you've finished. Don't slump.
Maybe you're just in a slump.

News and current affairs

Greece is in its fifth year of a slump.
In order to become cheaper, a country's inflation rate must stay below that of its competitors, but that can be accomplished only through an economic slump.
The more trade unions defend existing wage structures, and the lower productivity growth is, the longer the slump will be.
Indeed, economists failed to forecast most of the major crises in the last century, including the severe 1920-21 slump, the 1980-82 back-to-back recessions, and the worst of them all, the Great Depression after the 1929 stock-market crash.
The essential economic reality confronting the ECB today is that the American economy is falling headlong into a serious slump - Bernanke's surprise cut speaks volumes to this.
Cutting a deficit in a slump could never cause a recovery.
The slump had been created by fiscal extravagance, they insisted, and therefore could be cured only by fiscal austerity.
Any Keynesian knows that cutting the deficit in a slump is bad policy.
A slump, after all, is defined by a deficiency in total spending.
The moral of the tale is simple: Austerity in a slump does not work, for the reason that the medieval cure of bleeding a patient never worked: it enfeebles instead of strengthening.
Because of this downward spiral in economic activity, banks are now flush with liquidity, which is supporting a rally in the domestic bond market, as the slump in domestic demand drags down demand for bank credit (see the chart below).
With clear and predictable communication of this sort, the risk that the Fed would be unable to free the US economy from a deflationary slump is much lower - and so is the risk that it would ever have to fight that battle.
Thus, Greece went from boom to outright slump.
Whereas Germany's unemployment rate is now a bit lower than in the last boom, the French rate is significantly higher than in the last slump (2004-2005).
BERKELEY - The United States continues to recover from its deepest economic slump since the Great Depression, but the pace of recovery remains frustratingly slow.
Three decades later, the world is in a slump, and many people attribute the global crisis to these very ideas.
NEW HAVEN - With much of the global economy apparently trapped in a long and painful austerity-induced slump, it is time to admit that the trap is entirely of our own making.
Perhaps that would be enough to reassure everyone that policymakers' current acquiescence in a prolonged slump was a horrible mistake that will not be repeated.
Of course, with China's household sector holding a relatively small share of equities compared to real estate, the current stock-market slump is unlikely to derail the economy.
Nowhere, however, are the political and social consequences of an economic slump more potentially destabilizing than in China.
Given the slump in energy prices, there has never been a better time to undertake the transition to smart, credible, and effective carbon pricing.
And could a weakened Europe cope with an oil shock at all? A regional and global security shock caused by asymmetric warfare could add still further to the world economy's troubles, causing exports to slump even more.
But favorable economic indicators have made little difference to the standing of Cameron's Conservatives in opinion polls, and have done nothing to save their coalition partner, the centrist Liberal Democrats, from a severe slump.
After all, if the crisis in financial markets continues and combines with a dramatic slump in the real economy, the EU could quickly be at risk if it cannot respond politically.
As the now ten-year-old Japanese slump tells us, once deflation and contraction have established themselves, standard policies stop working.
In Europe, monetary caution, self-imposed fiscal constraints, and the Euro's appreciation all lead to clear dangers: deflation and a prolonged slump.
Moreover, this scenario cannot take place before the slump has turned into a boom.
The electorate is experiencing the greatest slump since 1929 like a bad dream that is half over - and politicians don't want to wake them up.
The question is whether Germany's leaders will recognize this before Europe's economy falls into an even deeper slump.
True, the slump is partly an illusion: the earlier boom was fueled by Japanese households' effort to beat the tax by front-loading purchases of consumer durables - a nuance that seems to have been lost in the public debate.

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