slump
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1. slump - Noun
2. slump - Verb
Meaning
The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
To lump; to throw into a mess.
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.
A boggy place.
The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
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Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
But no, the friend's indictment was off target; he simply liked them tall, as long as they didn't slump down in a forlorn effort to appear shorter. It seemed obvious to him that no woman looked good trying to be something she wasn't.
The appropriate time for the ultimate release of the deposits will have arrived at the onset of the first post-war slump.