Look up: decline

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   decline
   [Verb] To become weaker or smaller. To decline an offer is to politely refuse.
   Example: I will decline your kind offer unless you let me pay you for your time.
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   decline
   [n] - a condition inferior to an earlier condition 2. [n] - change toward something smaller or lower 3. [v] - go down 4. [v] - of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives 5. [v] - grow smaller
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   Decline
   Used as a specific term to mean Tuberculosis - May, of course, have the usual meaning too
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   decline
   the list of risks which are excluded from what an insurer will accept Category: Insurance • an estimate of an employer`s experience with unemployment,determined by dividing the decline in payroll from quarter 1 to quarter 2 by the payroll in quarter 1 Category: Statistics
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   Decline
   De·cline' intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Declined ; present participle & verbal noun Declining .] [ Middle English declinen to bend down, lower, sink, decline (a noun), French décliner to decline, refuse, from Latin declinare to turn aside, inflect (a part of speech), avoid; de- + clina ...
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   Decline
   De·cline' transitive verb 1. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. « In melancholy deep, with head declined .» Thomson. « And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale.» Spenser. 2. To cause to decrease or diminish. [ Obsolete] 'You have declined his mea ...
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   Decline
   De·cline' noun [ French déclin . See Decline , intransitive verb ] 1. A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion. « Their ...
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   decline
   1. A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion. 'Their fathers lived in the decline of literature.' (Swift) ... 2. <medicine> That period of ...
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   decline
   declination noun a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
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    decline
    go down verb grow smaller; `Interest in the project waned`
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    decline
    verb go down; `The roof declines here`
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    decline
    noun change toward something smaller or lower
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    Decline
    `Decline` is a change over time from previously efficient to inefficient organizational functioning, from previously rational to non-rational organizational and individual decision-making, from previously law-abiding to law violating organizational and individual behavior, from previously virtuous to iniquitous individual moral behavior. `Social decline` or `moral decline` is typically characterised as reduced adherence to cultural or social nor...
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    Decline
    • (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline. • (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective. • (v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy...
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    decline
    
    1. change toward something smaller or lower
    2. a condition inferior to an earlier condition
    3. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
    4. a downward slope
    
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