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单词 slowdown
释义
slowdown
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsləʊ.daʊn/us
/ˈsloʊ.daʊn/
areductioninspeed,activity, or theratethat things areproduced:
减速；减缓
aworldwideeconomicslowdown全球性的经济减缓
a slowdowninproduction生产率降低
US
(UKgo-slow)
anoccasionwhenemployeesworkmoreslowlyand with lesseffortthanusualtotrytopersuadeanemployertoagreetohigherpayorbetterworkingconditions
（为了迫使雇主答应加薪或改善工作条件等要求而进行的）怠工
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Slow and moving slowly
  • (as) slow as molassesidiom
  • at a snail's paceidiom
  • by and byidiom
  • by degreesidiom
  • clawyourway(somewhere)idiom
  • drift
  • float
  • inch by inchidiom
  • infiltrate
  • infiltration
  • jog
  • labour
  • lag
  • laggard
  • sluggishness
  • snail
  • steadily
  • steadiness
  • steady
  • struggle
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(Definition ofslowdownfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

slowdown| American Dictionary

slowdown
noun[C]
us
/ˈsloʊˌdɑʊn/
areductioninspeedoractivity:
Consumerbuyinghaspickedup again after asummerslowdown.
(Definition ofslowdownfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

slowdown| Business English

slowdown
noun[C]
ECONOMICS,COMMERCE
uk
/ˈsləʊdaʊn/us
aperiodwhen there is lessbusinessactivitythanusualin acompany, theeconomy, etc.:
slowdown in sthLaborDepartmentstatisticsreleasedlastFridayshowedanunexpectedslowdown inhiring.
Theeconomicslowdownhasaffectedbothpublicandprivatessectors.
dramatic/marked/sharpslowdown
HR,WORKPLACEUS
(UKgo-slow)
aperiodwhen an organization’semployeesworkmoreslowlyand lesseffectivelyto show they are notsatisfiedwiththeirpay,conditions, etc.:
Themanagementrefusedtorespondtothreatsof a slowdown.
(Definition ofslowdownfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofslowdown

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This was the only time in the sample that an economicslowdownoutlived the end of a recession.
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In fact, since waves of pessimism were present before the 1973- 1975 recession, they could have turned the economicslowdowninto this more intense recession.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Finally, the last column shows that switching off all the optimisations results in aslowdownof approximately 25% in most programs.
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Rather, processingslowdownis predicted at a specific region in both garden-path sentences and in unambiguous but hard-to-comprehend sentences.
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However, consumers' pessimism may have been an important factor in intensifying and extending the 1989-1992slowdown.
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The same feature is also found in business formation, with the pessimistic state occurring around recessions and slowdowns.
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By the early 1980s it had become clear that the economicslowdownwas rather persistent.
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This is aslowdownof 16.8 which is not entirely unexpected for this type of application.
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Hence, although entrepreneurs' pessimism may not have caused the economicslowdownin 1969, it may have triggered the following 1969 recession.
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However, the three years before this recession were marked by aslowdownand a short subsequent recession.
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This is stated twice, as just mentioned, but with the second statement extended by five longs because of the cadentialslowdown.
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Theslowdownof the economy penalised tax receipts and generated systematic budget deficits.
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One of the main implications of incomplete passthrough is that the nominal exchange rate overshoots its long-run equilibrium value in response to the monetaryslowdown.
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There have been no reports of closures of foreign-owned factories, but few have been able to avoid aslowdownin production.
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We study the asymptoticslowdown, the ratio of expected sojourn time to the service requirement, of customers with very large service requirements.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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