0 present participle of slate
1 to be expected to happen in the future or to be expected to be or do something in the future:
2 to attack by criticizing; to write or say that something is very bad:
We hope to get on very much more quickly with roof felting and then do full repairs with roof slating.
I know speculative builders who built tenements and paid for the slating work by giving tenement houses to the speculative contractor.
There is no better roofing to put on a house than slating, as anyone with building experience will tell you.
Our problem is a lack of confidence and the tremendous slating of the people who provide the service.
All he does in slating the case for this legislation is to suggest that in some way it will enable more choice to be provided.
There is no excessive profit on the timber used in dwellings, or on the slating, or the tiles, because they have to bear competition with materials supplied from other countries.
It is no good asking farmers to produce food for the masses in this country at a reasonable price but then slating farmers for doing so.
There was much controversy over the original cover, with some of its defenders slating the release of the other two covers.
