Slump vs Depreciation - What's the difference?
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(lb) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
(lb) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
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, title= (lb) To slouch or droop.
(lb) To lump; to throw together messily.
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To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
* (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
(Scotland, UK, dialect) A boggy place.
(Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
(Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
The state of being depreciated.
The decline in value of assets.
(accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.
Slump is a related term of depreciation.
As nouns the difference between slump and depreciation
is that slump is a heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period while depreciation is depreciation.As a verb slump
is (lb) to collapse heavily or helplessly.slump
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Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal, passage=The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelsea slumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week.}}
- These different groupsare exclusively slumped together under that sense.
- The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump .