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drop-off
[ drop-awf, -of ]
noun
- a vertical or very steep descent:
The trail has a drop-off of several hundred feet.
- a decline; decrease:
Sales have shown a considerable drop-off this year.
- a place where a person or thing can be left, received, accommodated, etc.:
a new drop-off for outpatients.
adjective
- applied when a rented vehicle is left elsewhere than at the point of hire:
to pay a drop-off charge.
drop off
verb
- intr to grow smaller or less; decline
- tr to allow to alight; set down
- informal.intr to fall asleep
noun
- a steep or vertical descent
- a sharp decrease
Word History and Origins
Origin of drop-off1
Example Sentences
The effort has not just been focused on “drop-off” voters—that is, Democrats who voted in 2012 but not in the 2010 midterms.
Not far from the drop-off point, the team ran into their first roadblock.
The drop-off is even steeper over the past 30 years: in 1982 the number was 56.4 percent.
The U.S. economic recovery, largely driven by a recovery in housing, could be threatened by this drop-off.
But I would expect to see some drop-off in applications, perhaps a substantial one.
A fine, large fire was started on the ledge of rock that extended out from the "Shelter" to a drop-off of some twenty feet.
I crossed a mesa and came to an abrupt drop-off—two hundred feet sheer.
Here we met another problem, in the form of a rounded ten foot drop-off to the concrete table.
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