slowdownnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈsləʊ.daʊn/us/ˈsloʊ.daʊn/a reduction in speed, activity, or the rate that things are produced:
a worldwide economic slowdown
a slowdown in production
US UK go-slow an occasion when employees work more slowly and with less effort than usual to try to persuade an employer to agree to higher pay or better working conditions
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- hang around
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- mill
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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