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  • noun Plural form of slowdown.

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Examples

  • Defaults tend to rise during economic slowdowns, which is also when asset prices drop.

    Debt Recovery Prospects Darken 2008

  • WIAN: Now the shippers are very worried that the union will resume its work slowdowns, which is what caused the shippers to lock out the union in the first place.

    CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2002 2002

  • Maybe we should ignore the chatter of "near bottoms" in share prices, "slowdowns" in mortgage foreclosures, "moderation" in housing price declines, "renewed" banking confidence and all the other pseudo-indicators.

    Les Leopold: The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear ... of Government 2009

  • It’s not at all uncommon to see a Firefox installation eating up more than any running application on your system, and while the memory consumption itself isn’t that big of a deal (Chrome eats a lot of memory too), the high memory usage is often accompanied by serious browser slowdowns, which is a very big problem, and one that, anecdotally at least, we hear from tons of Firefox users and very few Chrome users.

    Which Browser Should I Use: Firefox Or Chrome? | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • It’s not at all uncommon to see a Firefox installation eating up more than any running application on your system, and while the memory consumption itself isn’t that big of a deal Chrome eats a lot of memory too, the high memory usage is often accompanied by serious browser slowdowns, which is a very big problem, and one that, anecdotally at least, we hear from tons of Firefox users and very few Chrome users.

    Which Browser Should I Use: Firefox Or Chrome? | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Without Diskeeper on board, relentless fragmentation will steadily corrupt system performance and generate fragmentation-related problems such as slowdowns, freezes, crashes and more.

    9down.com 2009

  • (damages calculations enshrined in law, rather than being left to the judge and the damage caused by the particular act), and disconnection (or other approaches, such as slowdowns).

    O'Reilly News Nat Torkington 2010

  • (damages calculations enshrined in law, rather than being left to the judge and the damage caused by the particular act), and disconnection (or other approaches, such as slowdowns).

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

  • (damages calculations enshrined in law, rather than being left to the judge and the damage caused by the particular act), and disconnection (or other approaches, such as slowdowns).

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

  • (damages calculations enshrined in law, rather than being left to the judge and the damage caused by the particular act), and disconnection (or other approaches, such as slowdowns).

    O'Reilly News Nat Torkington 2010

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