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  1. noun The smallest quantity of liquid heavy enough to fall in a spherical mass. See Table at measurement.
  2. noun A small quantity of a substance.
  3. noun Liquid medicine administered in drops.
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  • The major reason for the drop is the lingering recession, which has decreased the amount of money local governments have to pay for police. —  WXYZ-TV Detroit - 7 Action News
  • Part of the reason for the drop is a reduction in demand for commercial and industrial-related funding. —  National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals
  • The reasons for the drop was a tightening of credit in our Pennsylvania markets in the third quarter of 2007, completion of the conversion to the Ensemble billing platform and we work through the churn of customers put on in late 2006 and early 2007 by a former Sprint Nextel agent. —  Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • The main cause of this drop is the firm's 10-month moving average. —  TradingMarkets
  • On the most basic level, the drop is about investor annoyance that Dell (DELL) is still spending so heavily as it turns things around. —  Big Tech
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English droppe, from Old English dropa; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also droppe; from Middle English droppen, from Anglo-Saxon droppan, also dropian and drop-petian, droppetan = Dutch droppen = German tropfen = Swedish droppa, drop; secondary forms of the orig. strong verb, Anglo-Saxon*dreópan (preterit* dreáp, plural* drupon, past participle * dropen; occurring, if at all, only in doubtful passages), Middle English drepen (= Old Saxon driopan = OFries. driapa = Dutch druipen = Old High German triufan, Middle High German G. triefen = Icelandic drjūpa = Norwegian drjupa), drop, whence also ult. drop, n., drip, v., dribble, etc., and (through Icelandic) droop, v.
  2. Early modern English also droppe; from Middle English drope, from Anglo-Saxon dropa (= Old Saxon dropo = Dutch drop = Middle Low German drope, drape, Low German druppen, drapen = Old High German tropfo, troffo, Middle High German tropfe, German tropfen = Icelandic dropi = Swedish droppe = Danish draabc), a drop, from Anglo-Saxon, etc., * dreópen, past participle *dropen, drop: see drop, v.
 

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