trickle

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And while a trickle doesn't sound like much, during a time of the worst economic drought in more than half a century, a trickle could be a lifeline this spring to the county's floundering real estate market.

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  1. intransitive verb To flow or fall in drops or in a thin stream.
  2. intransitive verb To move or proceed slowly or bit by bit: The audience trickled in.
  3. transitive verb To cause to trickle.
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  • Florida's condominium and homeowners 'associations are facing what experts call a trickle-down disaster from the property crisis. —  Reuters: Top News
  • What was at work in them when the evidence of American progress-which started as a trickle, and then became a river, and eventually became a flood-could no longer be denied?
  • Either it will come in a trickle, as interested developers find ways to build these services without the city's consent, or it will come in a flood as cities get on board and help push things along. —  P2P Foundation
  • "There are returns but I would describe it as a trickle, not a flood yet," Dini said. —  IRIN
  • Even worse, though, is that he and congressional Democrats are embracing a Democratic version of trickle-down economics that won't work. —  Latest Articles
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drip ·  dribble ·  rivulet ·  ripple ·  splash ·  drizzle ·  gurgle ·  spurt ·  puddle ·  droplet ·  tingle ·  flicker

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trickle:   trickling ·  trickled
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English triklen, perhaps variant of striklen, frequentative of striken, to flow; see strike.

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  1. from Middle English triklen, trikilen, trekelen; prob. a variant of striklen (with which it interchanges), trickle, freq. of striken, rarely Middle English triken, go: see strike. In modern times the word has been regarded as connected with trill. Cf. Scots trinkle, also trintle, trickle.
  2. from trickle, v.
 

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