slowdown
Americannoun
-
slowdowns
plural
-
a slowing down or delay in progress, action, etc.
-
a deliberate slowing of pace by workers to win demands from their employers.
-
Sports. a holding or passing tactic by a team to retain possession of the ball, puck, etc., or use up a maximal amount of time, as to safeguard a lead or thwart a high-scoring opponent.
noun
-
the usual US and Canadian word for go-slow
-
any slackening of pace
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of slowdown
First recorded in 1895–1900; noun use of verb phrase slow down
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Still, Grisanti said his team is among those preparing for an earnings slowdown, shifting from “picks and shovels” plays to take a larger position in power providers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
While India's growing economic credentials and burgeoning population of newly minted millionaires are a natural tailwind for expansion, this growth is partly being driven by a slowdown in China.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The group’s on-quarter widening of its gross margin is especially impressive given a slowdown in its sales to China, the analyst says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
“The concern about a slowdown in the AI build-out is simply misplaced,” Mason said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
The packinghouse foremen made it quite clear that the prior day’s riot did not merit any discussion or work slowdown.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
They’ve repeatedly urged coordinated industrywide slowdowns in development but never acted upon them.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
In an article published on 6 September, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki called for the industry to implement "voluntary slowdowns" until safeguards are set.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
But the risk is that someone looking at a P/E ratio may not see as much downside risk as there actually is, he added, because profit margins “tend to compress sharply” during slowdowns.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The statistical results also identified a cluster of evolutionary slowdowns around 15 million years ago, which coincided with another major geological event.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Solution: investment in machinery that moved slaughtered livestock from one place to the next, eliminating slowdowns.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
