Noun
The act of reduction or depletion (including through withdrawal or utilization).
The government initiated a drawdown of forces in the border region.
(US, military, law, in particular) The withdrawal of weapons, ammunition and other supplies from US stocks, and provision of it to another nation.
A lowering in water level, as in a well or a reservoir.
1995, John H. Dendy, Intensive Archeological Reconnaissance Survey of Newly Exposed Shoreline Resulting from the Drawdown of Harlan County Lake, Harlan County, Nebraska:From June to October 1992, an intensive reconnaissance survey of cultural resources exposed by a drawdown in lake elevation was conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The result of reduction, utilization, or depletion. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
(economics) (A measure of) the decline from a historical peak in some economic or financial variable.
(banking) The process of a bank releasing previously agreed loan amount to the borrower, hence making it available for them to use.
(finance) The borrowing of funds from a financial institution, under the terms of a credit agreement.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAll conditions precedent for the drawdown of the Loan Facility have been satisfied and the Company has drawn the full amount of the Term Facility and approximately US$75 million of the Revolving Credit Facility. Source: Internet
Another factor that may prolong ozone depletion is the drawdown of nitrogen oxides from above the stratosphere due to changing wind patterns. Source: Internet
An initial drawdown to 8,600 troops would occur within the first 135 days, according to the agreement. Source: Internet
At the end of the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum, cooling and the carbon dioxide drawdown continued through the late Eocene and into the Eocene-Oligocene transition around 34 million years ago. Source: Internet
Focus on the long term. If your plan calls for rebalancing your portfolio between stocks and bonds, then you will probably be buying stocks at some point, which seems reasonable given the recent run up in bonds and drawdown in stocks. Source: Internet
But just to contextualize our deployment, in the second quarter of 2019, as I mentioned, we deployed about $4.1 billion in our drawdown funds. Source: Internet