Slump

Definition: Slump

Slump

Noun

1. 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 long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment.

Verb

1. Assume a drooping posture or carriage.

2. Fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank".

3. Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slump" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references)

Note: Slump \Slump\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Slumped; Slumping.]. (references)

Economics

Geological

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Slump

Descent

Verb: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump.

Noun: descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling; Verb:: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; stumble; fate of Icarus.

Food

Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut.

Crosswords: Slump

Swedish (accidence, accident, chance, coincidence, fortuitousness, fortuity, hazard, luck, remainder, remnant, rest).

You slump, bum, son of a gun, (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Doctor Slump (1997)

Dr. Slump Arale-chan (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Breaking the Slump (reference)

• Going, Going...Gone?: Baseball's Long Slump and How It Can Rally (reference)

• How To Get Out Of A Slump (reference)

• The American Jitters: A Year of the Slump (reference)

• The Greatest Slump of All Time (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Sophomore Slump [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Sophtware Slump (reference)

• Stockholm Slump (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

Most of the corporate production is for exports as a result of the slump on the domestic market. (references)

These include massive government restructuring, the Asian economic crisis, and a global slump in maritime markets. (references)

The clone market is also growing fast, fueled by price sensitive consumers feeling the pinch of an economic slump. (references)

Economic History

Panama

Retailing has been in a serious slump since mid-2000. (references)

Croatia

Traditionally strong export sectors have entered a slump. (references)

Haiti

The projected 11.3% increase is particularly good news, considering the current economic slump. (references)

Political Economy

Vietnam

Two of the country's traditionally largest exports, rice and coffee, suffered from a continued slump in world market prices. (references)

HONG KONG

A strong, export-led recovery in 2000 and early 2001 stalled abruptly at mid-year, following a slump in consumer demand in the United States and Europe. (references)

Ireland

Consumer confidence may be hit by continuing high inflation and fallout from the slump in the U.S. high-tech sector, but midway through 2001 there are few signs of this. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "slump": economic slump ♦ slump down ♦ the slump. Additional references.

Beginning with "slump": slump-bashed, slump-busting, slump-hit.

Ending with "slump": boom-and-slump, boom-slump, mini-slump, pre-slump.

Containing "slump": boom-slump cycle.

Albanian

rrëzohem (cant, descend, fall, pitch, sink, tumble), rënie në baltë, rënie ekonomike, krizë (access, attack, blizzard, conjuncture, crisis, famine, fit, paroxysm, seizure, turn), bie ndjeshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشى مسترخيا, ‏هبوط مفاجئ (anticlimax, dive, flop), ‏هبوط الأسعار (drop, slide), ‏هبط (come down, decline, descend, dive, fall, set down, subside), ‏إنهيار (avalanche, breakdown, collapse, fall, plunge, ruin, shower, smash, split up), ‏إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, tumble, tumble down), ‏أزمة إقتصادية (economic crisis), ‏ركود (doldrums, down, lull, paralysis, recession, slackness, stagnancy, stagnation). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свличане на почвата (landfall, landslide, landslip), свличам се, слягам се (pack, settle down), спаднал интерес, рязко спадане (collapse), ходя прегърбен, ходя приведен (stoop), загуби (losses), провалям се (break down, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, fizzle out, fold, go awry, go phut, go to pot, go wrong, misfire, sour, tumble down), пропадане на почвата, прегърбена стойка (slouch, stoop), период на загуби, депресия (depression, heaviness). (various references)

Chinese 

暴跌 (steep fall). (various references)

Czech

stagnace (dullness, stagnation), prudký pokles, prudce klesnout (dive), propadnout se (cave in), náhle se snížit, náhlý pokles, krize (crisis, depression, turning point). (various references)

Danish

store prisfald, recession (recession), prisfald (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices), prisdyk (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices), oekonomisk depression (depression, economic depression, recession), lavkonjunktur (depression, economic depression, recession), konjunkturnedgang (contraction, cyclical down-turn, depression, economic depression, recession), drastisk prisfald (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices). (various references)

Dutch

scherpe prijsdaling (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices), recessie (depression, economic depression, recession), prijsdaling (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices), lage conjunctuur (depression, economic depression, recession), laagconjunctuur (depression, economic depression, recession), ineenstorting van de prijzen, economische depressie (depression, economic depression, recession), depressie (depression), baisse (depression, economic depression, recession). (various references)

Farsi 

یکباره فروریختن , یکباره پاءین امدن یاافتادن , کاهش فعالیت , سقوطکردن , زمین باتلاقی , خمیده شدن , افت (Blight, Deuce, Downfall, Pest, Pestilence, Plague), ریزش (Catarrh, Diffusion, Downfall, Gush, Income, Influx, Infusion, Outflow, Slide, Spray), رکود (Inaction, Inactivity, Stagnancy), دوره رخوت . (various references)

Finnish

suhdannetaantuma (recession), taantuma (adverse effect, contraction, recession), pulakausi (depression, recession), pula-aika (depression, recession), matalasuhdanne (depression, economic depression, recession), laskusuhdanne (downward trend, recession), laskukausi (period of decline, recession), lama (depression), kävellä vetelästi (slouch), hintojen jyrkkä lasku (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices), hinnan aleneminen (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices). (various references)

French

récession. (various references)

German

Preissturz (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices). (various references)

Greek 

σωριάζομαι (collapse, fall in, slumped in a chair). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�'יע לשפל, לר�"ת פתאום, לצ� וח (descend, fall, sink), �"תמוטטות (breakdown, collapse, fall, overthrow, tottering). (various references)

Hungarian

pangás (depression, doldrums, dullness, slack, slack time, stagnancy, stagnation, stasis), gazdasági válság. (various references)

Indonesian

kemerosotan (decadence). (various references)

Italian

recessione (recession, rescission), crollo dei prezzi (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

不振 (depression, dullness, stagnation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

したばなれ, ぼうらく, さ�"らく (going to the capital, sudden fall of market price), ふきょう (depression, displeasure, ill-humour, propagation, recession, rich and powerful, wealth and power), ふし�" (building, center of buoyancy, construction, depression, discredit, disloyalty, distrust, doing everything one can, doubt, dullness, incomplete understanding, infidelity, insincerity, mistrust, perfidy, question, racking one's brains, stagnation, strangeness, suspicion, taking pains to, unfaithfulness), ふちょう (bad condition, break-off, code, disagreement, disorder, head nurse, mark, not to work out, out of form, password, prefectural office, secret price tag, sign, symbol), かほう (addition, artillery, extra allowance, family code, good fortune, happiness, heirloom, lower part, lower region, luck, overpraise), スランプ , �'らく (decline, depreciation, fall), ていらく (decline, fall), て�"らく (degradation, fall, spill). (various references)

Korean 

폭락. (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering). (various references)

Pig Latin

umpslay.(various references)

Portuguese

sofrer uma baixa súbita, recessão (recession, recession curve, recession hydrograph), queda dos preços (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices), queda acentuada dos preços (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices), quebra dos preços (collapse of prices, setback, sharp fall in prices), falhar (balk, boss, conk out, fail, flop, lapse, mammock, miscarry, miss, muff, mull, peter out, smash, stumble), depressão económica (depression, economic depression, recession), depressão (basin, cavity, chill, crater, damp, dejection, depression, doldrums, goneness, low-spiritedness, megrims, oppression, prostration, sag, valley), crise econômica (economic crisis), crise (acme, aggression, bout, conjuncture, crisis, depression, emergency, head, shortage), cair bruscamente, baixa conjuntura (depression, economic depression, recession), baixa brusca de preços, atolar-se (founder, mire, sink), afundar-se (founder). (various references)

Romanian

scãdere bruscã a preţurilor, scãdea brusc, crizã (access, acme, attack, bout, climacteric, crisis, depression, fit, head, juncture, push, spasm, turn). (various references)

Russian 

резкое падение спроса, резкое падение (nosedive), кризис (crisis, head, turning-point), валиться спад, провалиться в болото, провалиться (fall through, plough, plow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

srozati se (droop, lower, vulgarize), recesija, opasti (ebb, fall off, fall out, go down, subside). (various references)

Spanish

depresión (depression, dip, hollow, low, scoop, sink, trough). (various references)

Swedish

tillbakagång (decline, degradation, eclipse, fade out, reversion), prisfall (sag), kris (crisis, depression, emergency, Kris), depression (depression). (various references)

Thai

ช่วงตกต่ำทางเศรษฐกิจ, การตกต่ำทางเศรษฐกิจ, การงอตัว, ทรุ�"ตัวลง. (various references)

Turkish

toprak kayması (creep, landslide, landslip, slide, slip, slumping), pat diye düşmek (flump, keel over, thud), kaymak (aquaplane, cream, glide, glissade, head, lapse, prolapse, skate, ski, skimmings, slide, slip, slither), ekonomik kriz, durgunluk (backwater, calm, calmness, deadlock, deadness, inaction, inactivity, inanimation, inertness, languor, placidity, recession, recessional, serenity, slack, slackness, stagnancy, stagnation, stillness), düşme (descent, downfall, drop, fall, falling away, falling down, falling off, flop, precipitation, sag, scale down, spill, tumble), birden düşmek, birden düşme, ani düşüş (trough), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump down, squat, subside), çökme (collapse, crack up, decline, depression, dip, downfall, sag, subsidence). (various references)

Ukrainian

спад інтересу, різко падати (toboggan), різке зниження, криза (crisis, depression), важко опускатися, викликати різке падіння. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự sụt giá bất thình lình sự ế ẩm, sự hạ giá nhanh. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slump": slumped, slumpflation, slumpflations, slumping, slumps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slump" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: klump, scump, Selkup, selum, shlump, silum, slamp, Slimp, slumpt, slumy, slup, solum, sulp, sumpf. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lumps, plums.

-1 letter: lump, lums, plum, plus, puls, slum, sump, umps.

-2 letters: lum, mus, pul, pus, sum, sup, ump, ups.

-3 letters: mu, um, up, us.

+1 letter: ampuls, clumps, flumps, plumbs, plumes, plumps, shlump, slumps.

+2 letters: ampules, impulse, lumpens, lumpers, lumpish, pablums, peplums, plenums, plumose, pumelos, pummels, rumples, schlump, shlumps, shlumpy, slumped, sunlamp.

+3 letters: amplexus, ampoules, clumpish, crumples, deplumes, displume, galumphs, humpless, impulsed, impulses, lumpfish, lumpiest, mudflaps, pabulums, palliums, paludism, plastrum, plumages, plumbers, plumbism, plumbous, plumbums, plumiest, plummets, plumpens, plumpers, plumpest, plumpish, plumules, populism, primulas, psyllium, pugilism, pullmans, pummelos, pumpless, replumbs, rumpless, schlumps, shlumped, slumping, speculum, spiculum, splenium, sunlamps, unclamps, upclimbs.