slack
94
4.5
- noun
- /slæk/
:
período de baja actividad
- If not, others would pick up the slack: kids were even taken to school and home against their will.
- pick up the slack
- take up the slack
- a slack period
So I don't know, maybe I should pick up the slack a little bit, but wow.
- So I don't know, maybe I should pick up the slack a little bit, but wow.
- And we've really not seen much improvement in wage growth, which is suggestive of some slack in the labour market.
- And so if he weren't there, I don't know other dad would have picked up that slack.
- Nothing's going on like like nothing doing in kind of the slack.
Examples
-
They've kind of come in and and are picking up some of the slack after Megan Elliott went off to go do their own thing.
-
It ends up assuming all the other cells are gonna pick up the slack somewhere.
-
Most of those who arrived during slack times were usually dismissed immediately.
Academic text (1991) -
The question is, who's going to pick up the slack and do the harder job of training up, you know, the Yemeni counterterrorism Coast Guard unit?
-
During the summer, we often experience a slack in customer traffic at the store.
-
The team noticed a significant slack in productivity during the last quarter of the year.
-
She worked harder to compensate for the slack in the project timeline caused by unforeseen delays.
Synonyms
65
4.6
A period when business or the economy falls a lot
10
3.9
A sudden decrease in amount, quality or rate
9
4.8
A clear drop in how well something works or how much there is
3
4.0
A drop in amount, level, or quality
1
6.7
A slow drop from an expected level of performance
1
5.6
A change when something becomes less tight, strong, or intense
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.0
A short time when the water is almost still before the current changes direction
How Active
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slack for a drop in work or quality comes from the old slak meaning 'slow', so a slack period is a 'slow' time when performance falls.