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• slow-up
  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

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

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

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

Perhaps he planned a gradual slow-up to block the flying section gently; perhaps he did not realize how fast the runaway was coming.

From Careers of Danger and Daring by Moffett, Cleveland

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