Of price or cost: low. Obsolete.

In senses of the verb.

Acting or moving slowly, clumsily, or with difficulty; wanting in briskness or alacrity; slow, sluggish; unwieldy. Of market conditions.

Chiefly Economics and Business. Of a market: fully supplied, sometimes to the point of oversupply.

Business and Finance. Of markets, commodities, shares, etc.: depressed in value, characterized by falling prices or excess supply; falling, or…

Business and Finance. Of a market: characterized by high demand and low supply, resulting in high prices. Cf. soft, adj. 26b.

Commerce. Of prices: Maintaining their level; with no downward tendency. Of commodities: Not depressed in market value. Also transferred applied to…

(a) n. the state in any particular market of supply being equal to demand; the practice of ensuring that this state obtains; (b) adj. (in form marke…

= demand-driven adj. at compounds.