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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
downturn
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an economic slowdown/downturn (=when businesses become less successful)
▪ Experts are predicting an economic slowdown at the beginning of next year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ Yesterday's trade figures showed clearly that export volumes were at record levels even in a worldwide economic downturn.
▪ And it is fertile soil for a severe economic downturn in the post-cold war world economy.
▪ The world's economic downturn has triggered a rash of defaults in commercial paper and long-term debt, particularly by unrated issuers.
▪ A few years hence, the nation experiences a severe economic downturn.
▪ Inpart, the fading lustre of famous names can be blamed on the economic downturn of the 1990s.
▪ When the Exposition closed Chicago was already in the grip of a serious economic downturn.
▪ He said first he had to deal with the provincial government's financial woes and an economic downturn.
▪ There is no loophole to grant budget flexibility in case of an economic downturn.
recent
▪ In assessing a recent downturn, they refuse to resort to the dissembling language of corporate reports and quarterly statements.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A downturn in one part of the world has always been partly offset by growth elsewhere.
▪ A market downturn in rig moves was more than compensated for by a significant increase in supporting offshore construction projects.
▪ But the semiconductor sector, thought to be most vulnerable to an economic downturn, fell back from several rally attempts.
▪ In this way, landowners can protect themselves from any downturn in the farming economy, says Mr Sanders.
▪ It blamed the cuts on the downturn in the aerospace market.
▪ Song said that the number of people moving to Hong Kong is actually increasing while the number emigrating is on the downturn.
▪ This group, they argue, still feels insecure and worries about its fate in the face of another economic downturn.
▪ Yesterday's trade figures showed clearly that export volumes were at record levels even in a worldwide economic downturn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
downturn

1926 in the economic sense, from down (adv.) + turn (n.).

Wiktionary
downturn

n. A downward trend, or the beginnings of one; a decline.

WordNet
downturn

n. a worsening of business or economic activity; "the market took a downturn" [syn: downswing]

Usage examples of "downturn".

Because teens spend more on clothes than other Americans, specialty retailers who sell to teens suffer less in economic downturns than chains selling to adults.

Bauchelain had triggered unease in the captain, then this manhis broad, round face, his eyes buried in puffed flesh and wide full-lipped mouth set slightly downturned at the corners, a face both childlike and ineffably monstroussent ripples of fear through Gruntle.

Features on the left were fixed in a downturned grimace, as if in permanent dismay.

He exhaled, his eyes suddenly very dark as he studied her downturned face.

He looked around the suddenly downturned faces, agitation spraying through the ranks at the kind of outrageous remark he might be intending to make about them to this vision of beauty.

Here the mother vein had taken a sudden, steep downturn, while simultaneously thickening and complexifying to a fabulous richness.

The one at the top was of Emmett Kelly, with his white-painted downturned mouth, his battered hat and enormous flopping shoes, running toward the circus tent with a bucket of water.

Taxes, economic downturns, and competition were all out of sight for the moment.

And Nicholas's role within the conglomerate was increasing exponentially, since he had more experience with significant economic downturns than any Japanese.

Several steel and auto plants had shut down, and two major banks failed, throwing thousands of white-collar workers out of jobs and causing downturns in real-estate, advertising, law and other fields.

The flulike symptoms that hospitalized him Sunday afternoon had shown an appreciable improvement soon after his admission, continued along that positive trend throughout Monday, and then had taken a sharp, unexpected downturn over the past several hours.

Major Humphreys had the thoughtful eyes and downturned mouth of a schoolteacher, but right now his dominant expression was the same as that of the soldier on guard—tension masking dread.

Even the acutely disciplined safeties began to let their masks of neutrality slip, betraying their inclinations and allegiances with a slightly downturned lip here, an arched eyebrow or furrowed brow there.

We know that whitehats -- so we have named the slow, flat, three-cornered scions that walk on their downturned tips -- are not edible, yet two of Moonrise's children have died in the last week trying to eat one.