Usually means: Low point in a cycle.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word trough:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. trough: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. trough, trough: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trough: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. trough: Collins English Dictionary
  5. trough: Vocabulary.com
  6. Trough, t'rough, trough: Wordnik
  7. trough: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. trough: Wiktionary
  9. trough: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. trough: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. trough: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. trough: Dictionary.com
  13. trough: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. trough: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Trough (film), The Trough, Trough (barony), Trough (disambiguation), Trough (economics), Trough (food), Trough (geology), Trough (meteorology), Trough (physics), Trough: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Trough: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. trough: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. trough: Rhymezone
  19. Trough: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. trough: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. trough: Free Dictionary
  22. trough: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. trough: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. trough: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. trough: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Trough: bizterms.net
  5. Trough: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Trough: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  7. Trough: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  8. Trough: Investopedia
  9. Trough: Energy Dictionary
  10. Trough (disambiguation), Trough: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trough (disambiguation), trough: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Trough (disambiguation), trough: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Trough: Solar Radiation Resource Terms
  2. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. trough: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. trough: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. trough, the trough: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Trough: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See troughing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
noun:  Any similarly shaped container.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
noun:  A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
noun:  (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
noun:  (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
noun:  (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
noun:  A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
noun:  (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
noun:  (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
verb:  To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.

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