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drop off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. slump, slack, drop-off, falloff, falling offnoun

    a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality

    "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality"

  2. cliff, drop, drop-offnoun

    a steep high face of rock

    "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop"

  3. decrease, lessening, drop-offverb

    a change downward

    "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"

  4. drop offverb

    fall or diminish

    "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test"

  5. fall asleep, dope off, flake out, drift off, nod off, drop off, doze off, drowse offverb

    change from a waking to a sleeping state

    "he always falls asleep during lectures"

  6. drop, drop off, set down, put down, unload, dischargeverb

    leave or unload

    "unload the cargo"; "drop off the passengers at the hotel"

  7. fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recedeverb

    retreat

  8. slip, drop off, drop away, fall awayverb

    get worse

    "My grades are slipping"

Wiktionary

  1. drop offverb

    (intransitive) To fall asleep.

  2. drop offverb

    (transitive) To deliver; to deposit or leave.

  3. drop offverb

    To fall.

  4. drop offverb

    To lessen or reduce.

ChatGPT

  1. drop off

    Drop off generally refers to leaving or delivering something or someone at a specific location. In another context, it can also imply a significant decrease in level, amount or quality of something.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drop off in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drop off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of drop off in a Sentence

  1. Thomas Largo:

    The drop-off in April was massive, we weren't quite prepared for that.

  2. Richard Andrade:

    It’s something that really impacts certain people. you have your family to take care of and make sure you put food on the table and everything, they’re not going to miss a day out of work—or they might not be able to get away from their job to even stop by the county elections to drop off that ballot because they just don’t have that luxury.

  3. Adam Twidell:

    The runway appears, framed in the island's rugged outline as you approach. Depending on wind conditions, pilots can land on both ends of the 400-meter strip. It's like landing on an aircraft carrier, with a deep drop-off into the sea.

  4. Weatherford Mayor Mike Brown:

    Really, when the oil fields kind of slowed down, the wind energy picked up, it really was at a good time for us as far as not seeing a big drop-off.

  5. Crystal Alvarez:

    We are currently doing pool testing, which we do it once a week, with whatever students parents gave consent and nurses drop off the supplies, the students swab themselves, and then that is sent to the lab, and if one of the PCR tests ends up positive, then we rescreen those students with a rapid test.


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