transcription, транскрипция: [ stægneɪt, AM stægneɪt ]
( stagnates, stagnating, stagnated)
If something such as a business or society stagnates , it stops changing or progressing.
Industrial production is stagnating...
VERB : V [ disapproval ]
• stag‧na‧tion
...the stagnation of the steel industry.
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