noun
Meaning 1
A sudden downward slope or cliff.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
drop-off
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noun
Meaning 2
A sudden downward slope or cliff.
The precipitous outer side of a coral reef, facing the open sea.
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noun
Meaning 3
A decrease; especially, a sudden one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- There has been an unexplained drop-off in sales this quarter.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: falloff, step-off
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A delivery; the act of leaving a package, etc.
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noun
Meaning 5
A space reserved outside a bus or railway station for vehicles stopping to drop off passengers for onward transit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, especially
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: set-down, setting-down
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A time during which passengers, such as school children, are dropped off; the event or act of dropping them off.
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noun
Meaning 7
A visitor to a website who ceases to continue using and navigating around the site after reaching some specified page; or such an act of cessation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
Examples
- We're seeing a lot of drop-offs on the shop product pages; why aren't people making purchases?
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noun
Meaning 8
a change downward
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided
- there was a sharp drop-off in sales
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: decrease, lessening
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alteration, modification
Narrower terms: shrinking, shrinkage, casualty, sinking, attrition, dwindling, dwindling away, waning
noun
Meaning 9
a steep high face of rock
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town
- a steep drop
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cliff, drop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: geological formation, formation
Narrower terms: crag, precipice
noun
Meaning 10
a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the team went into a slump
- a gradual slack in output
- a drop-off in attendance
- a falloff in quality
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slump, slack, falloff, falling off
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening
History
Etymology
Deverbal from drop off.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: pudotus — sudden downward slope
- Galician: caída — sudden downward slope
- Galician: noiro — sudden downward slope
- Galician: terraplén — sudden downward slope
- German: Felli — sudden downward slope
- Polish: zbocze — sudden downward slope
- Swedish: stup — sudden downward slope
- Swedish: tvärstup — sudden downward slope
- Finnish: pudotus — sudden decrease
- German: Abnahme — sudden decrease
- German: Minderung — sudden decrease
- German: Rückgang — sudden decrease
- Polish: spadek — sudden decrease
- Turkish: azalma — sudden decrease
- Turkish: gerileme — sudden decrease