Usually means: Decline in economic or business activity.
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  1. downturn: Merriam-Webster
  2. downturn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. downturn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. downturn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. downturn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Downturn, downturn: Wordnik
  7. downturn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. downturn: Wiktionary
  9. downturn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. downturn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. downturn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. downturn: Dictionary.com
  13. downturn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Downturn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. downturn: Rhymezone
  16. downturn: FreeDictionary.org
  17. downturn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. downturn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. downturn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. downturn: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Downturn: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. downturn: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downturn: Encyclopedia

(Note: See downturning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A downward trend, or the beginnings of one; a decline.
verb:  To turn downwards
verb:  To decline

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