Noun
the act of slowing down or falling behind
Source: WordNetTaxes are a joke. Regardless of what a political candidate 'promises', they will increase. More taxes are always the answer to government mismanagement. They mess up. We suffer. Taxes are reaching cataclysmic levels, with no slowdown in sight. Timothy McVeigh
Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations. Mitt Romney
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory. Nancy Pelosi
Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act. John Podhoretz
As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China. Marc Faber
Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me. Lucy Powell