transcription, транскрипция: [ slʌmp ]
( slumps, slumping, slumped)
1.
If something such as the value of something slumps , it falls suddenly and by a large amount.
Net profits slumped by 41%...
Government popularity in Scotland has slumped to its lowest level since the 1970s.
VERB : V prep , V prep , also V
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Slump is also a noun.
...a slump in property prices.
N-COUNT : oft N in n
2.
A slump is a time when many people in a country are unemployed and poor.
...the slump of the early 1980s.
= recession
N-COUNT
3.
If you slump somewhere, you fall or sit down there heavily, for example because you are very tired or you feel ill.
She slumped into a chair...
He saw the driver slumped over the wheel.
VERB : V prep / adv , V-ed