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Definition: Drop-off |
Drop-offNoun1. A noticeable decline in performance: "the team went into a slump"; "a sudden slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in automobile sales". 2. A steep high face of rock. 3. A change downward; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | The delivery of a shipment by a shipper to a carrier for transportation. (references) |
Environment | Recyclable materials collection method in which individuals bring them to a designated collection site. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Drop-offSynonyms: cliff (n), decrease (n), falling off (n), falloff (n), lessening (n), slack (n), slump (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: increase (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Drop-off |
| English words defined with "drop-off": decrease ♦ falling off, falloff ♦ lessening ♦ slack, slump. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drop-off": cosmic-ray knee. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ecuador | After a drop-off in such seizures for some years, several U.S. tuna boats were again detained and seized in 1980 and 1981. (references) |
Zimbabwe | Recent politically motivated violence and the fuel shortages have caused a sharp drop-off in arrival numbers, international airline connections and bed-nights. (references) | |
Laos | THE SHARP DROP-OFF IN FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN LAOS FROM 1996 TO 1998, WHILE PARTLY DUE TO THE REGIONAL ECONOMIC CRISIS, IS ROOTED IN OTHER FACTORS AS WELL, SUCH AS PROLIFERATING BUREAUCRATIC IMPEDIMENTS TO THE APPLICATION PROCESS; A LACK OF TRANSPARENCY IN THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; AND AN INCREASINGLY TROUBLED DOMESTIC ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT. (references) | |
Human Rights | South Africa | During the year in KwaZulu-Natal, four taxi ranks, which are places designated by the municipality as a pick-up and drop-off point for taxis, temporarily were closed as a result of escalating violence between two factions. (references) |
Trade | Indonesia | With the sharp drop-off of private capital flows since the economic crisis, Indonesia is now heavily dependent on official financing, primarily from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank, and major bilateral donors. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Drop-off" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drop-off" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "drop-off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | affaldscontainerpark (wheel bin-based drop-off centre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vuilnisbak op wiel (wheel bin-based drop-off centre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | centre de descente basée sur trémie (wheel bin-based drop-off centre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Durchsickerzentrum (wheel bin-based drop-off centre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κέντρο συλλογής βασισμένο σε τροχοφόρους κάδους (wheel bin-based drop-off centre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szakadék (abyss, beetling height, chasm, cleft, cove, deep, dell, escarpment, gap, gourd, gulch, gulf, pit, precipice, ravine, scarp), mélység (abyss, chasm, deep, deepness, depth, depths, gulf, precipice, profound, profoundness, profundity, the deep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | centro di raccolta mobile (wheel bin-based drop-off centre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | op-offdray saída (blow-off, canal, departure, door, egress, escape, escapement, exhaust, exit, exodus, leave, out, outfall, outing, outlet, sally, turn-out, way out), caixa do correio (mailbox). (various references) centro de descenso con tolva (wheel bin-based drop-off centre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-f-o-o-p-r" | |
-2 letters: droop, fordo, proof. | |
-3 letters: doff, door, dorp, drop, food, ford, odor, ordo, pood, poof, poor, prod, prof, rood, roof. | |
-4 letters: dor, fop, for, fro, off, pod, pro, rod. | |
-5 letters: do, od, of, op, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-f-f-o-o-p-r" | |
+4 letters: fireproofed. | |
+5 letters: flameproofed. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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