0 a reduction in speed, activity, or the rate that things are produced:
a slowdown in production
2 a period when there is less business activity than usual in a company, the economy, etc.:
3 a period when an organization’s employees work more slowly and less effectively to show they are not satisfied with their pay, conditions, etc.:
The management refused to respond to threats of a slowdown.
This was the only time in the sample that an economic slowdown outlived the end of a recession.
In fact, since waves of pessimism were present before the 1973- 1975 recession, they could have turned the economic slowdown into this more intense recession.
Finally, the last column shows that switching off all the optimisations results in a slowdown of approximately 25% in most programs.
Rather, processing slowdown is predicted at a specific region in both garden-path sentences and in unambiguous but hard-to-comprehend sentences.
However, consumers' pessimism may have been an important factor in intensifying and extending the 1989-1992 slowdown.
The same feature is also found in business formation, with the pessimistic state occurring around recessions and slowdowns.
By the early 1980s it had become clear that the economic slowdown was rather persistent.
This is a slowdown of 16.8 which is not entirely unexpected for this type of application.
