Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective decreasing.
  • adjective going from better to worse.
  • adjective becoming less or smaller. Opposite of increasing.
  • adjective prenominal drawing to an end; waning.

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  • verb Present participle of decline.

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Examples

  • Not at all, since most of the declining is a result of leftist policy.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Wage Stagnation Debate 2010

  • Not at all, since most of the declining is a result of leftist policy. change Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » The Wage Stagnation Debate 2010

  • Not at all, since most of the declining is a result of leftist policy.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Wage Stagnation Debate 2010

  • Not at all, since most of the declining is a result of leftist policy.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Wage Stagnation Debate 2010

  • PDP National Chairman Vincent Ogbulafor, who told journalists yesterday in Abuja that the Senators 'views were "individualistic", also expres-sed concern about what he called the declining fortunes of the party in the South-west.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

  • We have seen, I guess, a slowdown of the, what we call declining business or lost business line in the institutional business, which is what we would expect and what we've predicted.

    unknown title 2009

  • When you pull into that parking lot there are always some guys offering to place crushed cardboard boxes onto your windshield to keep your supposedly locked car cooler while you shop and you can either accept or decline his offer but declining is foolish so you accept and when you leave the store you tip the guy a few pesos and he directs your departure and that is that.

    Charging for parking 2009

  • Some laid-off employees become entrepreneurs, working on ideas that have been ignored by corporate bureaucracies, while sclerotic firms in declining industries fail, making way for nimbler enterprises.

    How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America 2010

  • When you pull into that parking lot there are always some guys offering to place crushed cardboard boxes onto your windshield to keep your supposedly locked car cooler while you shop and you can either accept or decline his offer but declining is foolish so you accept and when you leave the store you tip the guy a few pesos and he directs your departure and that is that.

    Charging for parking 2009

  • Some laid-off employees become entrepreneurs, working on ideas that have been ignored by corporate bureaucracies, while sclerotic firms in declining industries fail, making way for nimbler enterprises.

    How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America 2010

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