1 If the amount, number, or quality of something drops off, it becomes less: --
4 a reduction in the amount or level of something: --
a slight/steep/significant drop-off
a drop-off in sth There was a sharp drop-off in industrial production in December.
Analysts say the employment drop-off is directly linked to a slowdown in housing construction
5 an act of taking people, goods, mail, etc. to a place, or the place where you take them: --
Will that progress be adversely affected by a drop-off in the rate of grant aid?
However, they will have discretion to provide more drop-off points in places suitable for local people, if doing so is appropriate to the particular locality.
There is a danger if one has 240 hours as a maximum of a drop-off and having the offender exposed to failure.
In those areas where local authorities provide varied menus there has been no drop-off in the numbers taking school meals.
The problem for women's sport in particular is the massive drop-off rate during the teenage years.
A shar p drop-off was noted between the first and second samples across all measures, with lear ner perfor mance then improving steadily until the end of the study.
The relatively large drop-off in technical efficiency during the monsoon season might seem to present a favorable opportunity for a captain's training or extension program to raise technical efficiency.
The rate of intensity drop-off is a function of the intensity of the pulse.
