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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. Brendan Walsh:

    If we get Latinos to perform as we want them to but we lose ground in the suburbs, we lose, but there’s no amount of votes we can pick up in the suburbs that makes up for a drop off in Latino voters. We need it to be terrific in order to win.

  2. Shweta Kurvey-Mishra:

    What we don't want is for people to start an application and drop off because it's really cumbersome, we've had to be creative and change the way we attract and source candidates, but also... once we bring them in, what can we do to ensure that we are retaining them.

  3. Siya Kolisi:

    With the food packages that we drop off, we are adding messages in the local dialect of Xhosa, because this is predominately for the Xhosa areas, we put in instructions there for the masks - all in Xhosa - on how to put it on... But the most important is this : if you want people to stay home, tell them why. You can't just tell someone to stay home and not give them anything.

  4. Chelsea Feldcher:

    It can be a little hectic in the morning when you have 10 people lined up ready to drop off their bags, but obviously any extra revenue is great for us and we are introducing new people to the restaurant.

  5. Chris Hollins:

    The Governor's suppressive tactics should not be tolerated, and tonight's ruling shows that the law is on the side of( the) Texas voter, seniors and voters with disabilities across Harris County need these drop-off locations to deliver their mail ballots safely and conveniently during the global pandemic. We shouldn't be playing politics with voters' lives.


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