slump meaning

• Verb: slump  slúmp
  1. Assume a drooping posture or carriage
     - slouch 
  2. Fall or sink heavily
     "He slumped onto the couch"
     - slide down, sink 
  3. Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
     - fall off, sink 
  4. Go down in value
     "prices slumped"
     - decline, correct
  Noun: slump  slúmp
  1. A noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
     "the team went into a slump"
     - slack, drop-off, falloff, falling off 
  2. A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
     - depression, economic crisis

  Derived forms: slumping, slumps, slumped

  Type of: break, cave in, collapse, come down, crisis, declension, decline in quality, descend, deterioration, droop, drop, economic condition, fall, fall in, flag, founder, give, give way, go down, sag, swag, worsening

  Encyclopedia: Slump

• 
  [Architecture]
  

  A measure of consistency of freshly mixed concrete, mortar, or stucco; equal to the decrease in height, measured to the nearest ¼ in. (6 mm) of the molded mass immediately after its removal from a slump cone.

• 
  [Business]
  noun, verb

  ■ noun [C]

  1

  a sudden fall in sales, prices, etc:

  a sharp slump in share prices

  The sales slump continues to hit retail stores.

  Economists have detected signs of a slump in consumer confidence.

  SYN DECLINE

  a slump in demand/prices/profits/sales/spending a bad/deep/dramatic/prolonged/sharp slump

  2 (Economics )

  a period when a country's economy or a business is doing very badly:

  The US slump appears to be over.

  Tourism is in a slump.

  There are signs of an end to the six-month slump in the manufacturing sector.

  OPP BOOM

  an economic/industry/a stock market slump

  ◆ a bad/deep/global/prolonged slump

  ■ verb [no obj] slump (from sth) (to sth) | slump (by sth)

  to fall in price, value etc. suddenly and by a large amount:

  The share price slumped from more than £3 to £1.

  Sales in shopping centres slumped 35 per cent.

  The company's operating profits slumped by a half. See note at INCREASE

• 
  [Economics]
  = depression
• 
  [Finance]
  A temporary fall in performance, often describing consistently falling security prices for several weeks or months.

• The baby has come out of his slump.
• I tell you a financial slump is coming.
• In a slump a lot of labourers are sent home.
• Is the u.s. headed for a slump?
• Some thin beds of layered sandstone and dark grey siltstone show slump structures.
• The slump on wall street set up a chain reaction in stock markets around the world.
• There is more unemployment or underemployment of labour and capital equipment in the slump than in the boom.
• In general, use concrete with a moderate slump
• Testing fresh concrete-part 2 : slump test
• We must find ways to beat the export slump

• "slump" meaning in Chinese: n. 1.〔方言〕陷入，掉下；〔方言〕沼地。2.【商业】(物价等的)暴跌；(事业的)衰败，低落；(精神等的)消沉，...
• "slump" meaning in Japanese: １slump n. 不調; 不況, 暴落, がた落ち. 【動詞＋】 ◆bring about a heavy slu...
• "slump" meaning in Russian: 1) большое количество, большое число Ex: in (by) the slump...
• "slump" meaning in French: n. baisse des prix, récession; chute, descente soudaine;...