Usually means: Decline in performance, sales, quality.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word slump:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. slump: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slump: Merriam-Webster
  3. slump: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slump: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slump, the Slump: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slump: Vocabulary.com
  7. Slump, slump: Wordnik
  8. slump: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slump: Wiktionary
  10. slump: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slump: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slump: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slump: Dictionary.com
  14. slump (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. slump: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Slump (economics), Slump (geology), Slump (sports), Slump, The Slump: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Slump: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. slump: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. slump: Rhymezone
  20. slump: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. slump: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SLUMP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. slump: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. slump: FreeDictionary.org
  25. slump: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. slump: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Slump: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Slump: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  6. slump: Finance-Glossary.com
  7. Slump: Investopedia
  8. slump: Legal dictionary
  9. Slump: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slump: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slump: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. slump, slump: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. slump, the slump: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slump: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Stamp Store Glossary (concrete) (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Slump: Construction Glossary
  4. Slump: Glossary of Glass Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
verb:  (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
verb:  (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
verb:  (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
verb:  To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun:  A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
noun:  (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
noun:  A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
noun:  (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
noun:  (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
noun:  (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
noun:  (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
noun:  (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
noun:  A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.

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