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  slow-up

  noun

  a delay or retardation in progress or activity; slowdown.
• slow up
  slow up

  Slacken or cause to slacken in speed, as in The train slowed up as it approached the curve, or Come on, you're slowing me up. [Late 1800s] Also see slow down, def. 1.

slow-up

American  

[sloh-uhp] / ˈsloʊˌʌp /

noun

1. a delay or retardation in progress or activity; slowdown.

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slow up Idioms  

1. Slacken or cause to slacken in speed, as in The train slowed up as it approached the curve, or Come on, you're slowing me up. [Late 1800s] Also see slow down, def. 1.

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Etymology

Origin of slow-up

First recorded in 1890–95; noun use of verb phrase slow up

Example Sentences

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Yet many of the key statistics that economists have used for years to measure the economy's health indicate that it is on the edge of a slow-up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like other manufacturers, Chrysler will go into M-4 production without slow-up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dorothy Lamour was refused entrance to the Glenn L. Martin plane plant at Middle River, Md., on the ground that a slow-up for ogling and neck-craning "might cost us half a bomber."

From Time Magazine Archive

The real dangers seemed to lie in a long-term slow-up of the natural gas industry, rather than immediate difficulties.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was always a slow-up in the work about ten o'clock, and Hiram had a request to make.

From Hiram the Young Farmer by Burbank L. Todd

The field will look to hunt down Ewing over the weekend, but it will need her to slow up.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

A long-distance lorry driver, he said he had no option but to pay privately or "sit and do nothing, vegetate and slow up".

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2023

Bond yields slumped on Wednesday to multi-month lows, but rather than moving higher on expectations the Fed will slow up on its policy tightening, this time Wall Street slumped into the red.

From Reuters ● Jan. 18, 2023

Jackson appeared to slow up just before the finish line during the heat, which allowed Italy’s Dalia Kaddari to pass her in the final moment.

From Fox News ● Aug. 2, 2021

They had to slow up at the gorge, inching slowly down along the narrow, twisting road, pulling over twice before they hit bottom to allow other, wood-filled pickups on the way home to pass.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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