adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stagnant (= bad and not progressing or improving )
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Measures aimed at reviving the stagnant economy are not working.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
economy
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A stagnant economy heaps increased demands on government as more people are in need.
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Both the leading candidates advocated free market policies and foreign investment to revive the stagnant economy .
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The lack of an efficient railway system was a major contributing factor to the stagnant economy .
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But his Treasury team think they have done enough to put life into the stagnant economy .
water
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The road peters out in a mass of marshy grass and stagnant water .
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Midway between sun and stagnant water he blazed in his glorious colors of putrefaction dark green, dark blue, black.
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He had not eaten for three days and had drunk only stagnant water from a barrel.
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Gao Ma knew that the lane beyond the southern wall dead-ended at a noodle mill alongside a ditch of putrid stagnant water .
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Aeration can not be a factor, as this algal growth also occurs in stagnant water .
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They grow in running streams as well as in stagnant water of ponds, backwaters, and wells.
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Usually we are melting snow or ice so we don't bother, but this trip could see us near stagnant water .
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Imagine being offended by stagnant water !
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The moss grows in stagnant pools of water.
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Ticket sales have been stagnant .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hundred shirtless men worked, sweating, in practiced synchronization in the hot, stagnant air of the clearing.
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By contrast, people who become stagnant at midlife dry out and shrink like prunes.
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Everyone knows it's a stagnant market.
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Gao Ma knew that the lane beyond the southern wall dead-ended at a noodle mill alongside a ditch of putrid stagnant water.
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He detected the faint smell of blood just before the familiar but oddly stagnant odor of Jinju came rushing toward him.
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The country's musical artificiality and stagnant stupidity drably undermines the development of its youth.
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The road peters out in a mass of marshy grass and stagnant water.
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We'd pick coffee from October to January, but January is called the stagnant month.