What does downside mean?
Definitions for downside
ˈdaʊnˌsaɪddown·sid·e
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Princeton's WordNet
downsidenoun
a negative aspect of something that is generally positive
"there is a downside even to motherhood"
Wiktionary
downsidenoun
A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous.
The downside of obtaining a higher rank is that far more work is expected.
downsidenoun
A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc
Etymology: Compound of down + side.
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downside
A downside refers to the negative aspect, disadvantage, or potential negative outcome of a situation, action, process, or condition. It's often contrasted with the positive aspects or the upside of something.
Wikidata
Downside
Downside is a farming community in the central east part of the Riverina and situated about 15 kilometres north west from Wagga Wagga and 24 kilometres south east from Coolamon. Downside Post Office opened on 15 August 1878 and closed in 1905.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of downside in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of downside in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of downside in a Sentence
A lot of these funds are reducing the downside or mitigating losses but investors would still have been better keeping their money in cash.
There's not as much downside as people portray, every policy official in the world is trying to push up the markets and the economy, everywhere you look.
We are still in the midst of a potential downside adjustment in prices for emerging markets and risk assets in general.
My entire family, great grandfather, grandfather, father and uncles were all fishermen, i saw the downside of the long periods away from their families and wanted to avoid that scenario.
In the end, he's going to be the one to blink, if the market was really concerned then you'd see much more to the downside.
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