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▪ I. down-turn, downturn, n.
[down adv. 41.]
A turning downward; a decline, esp. in economic or business activity.
1926National Provisioner 19 June 40 Most fat cows and heavy heifers lost around 25c and in instances the down⁓turn on better grades was even greater. 1940Economist 10 Feb. 250/1 The great upturn [of prices] was basically caused by drought, and the great downturn by the breaking of the drought. 1947Dewey & Dakin Cycles xvi. 232 The corrective economic downturn following World War II. Ibid. 233 The downturn in the 54-year price rhythm was hardly even noted. 1955Ann. Reg. 1954 168 He asked for measures which could be used if the economic ‘downturn’ became a recession. 1957Economist 7 Sept. 760/1 The economy has already demonstrated this year that it can suffer a mild downturn in manufacturing. 1964L. S. Hultzén in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 87 In some idiolects this non-finitive text shape has an arrested down-turn or slight up-turn. 1970Daily Tel. 14 Jan. 19 The down-turn in stocks suggests the possibility of a lower level of importing.
▪ II. down-turn, downturn, v.
[down adv. 36.]
trans. To turn downwards.
1909R. Kane Sermon of Sea xx. 325 The rusty green and knitted surface of the sod are gradually cloven and down⁓turned. 1922Joyce Ulysses 691 With solicitation, bending and downturning the upturned rug-fringe.
So down-turned ppl. a. (see down adv. 38).
1880Rules on Specifications U.S. Patent Office 25/2 The following are single words..downturned. 1909Westm. Gaz. 21 June 2/3 Curve those lips..To a dismal down-turned crescent. 1942T. S. Eliot Little Gidding 10, I fixed upon the down-turned face That pointed scrutiny. |