Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act, process, or result of reducing or depleting.
- noun A lowering of the water level in a reservoir or other body of water.
- noun A reduction of military personnel in a deployment.
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- noun The act of
reduction ordepletion . - noun The result of reduction or depletion.
- noun A change in hydraulic head in a
well or other body of water. - noun economics A
measure of thedecline from ahistorical peak in somevariable , typically thecumulative profit or total open equity of a financial trading strategy.
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Examples
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But General Petraeus told VOA as long as the drawdown is "conditions based" he does not see how anyone can make "an intellectual argument" against it.
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The suggestion that these leaders are only now drawing closer to Iran as a result of the U.S. drawdown is both patently ridiculous and misleading.
Wonk Room 2009
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But General Petraeus told VOA as long as the drawdown is "conditions based" he does not see how anyone can make "an intellectual argument" against it.
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The suggestion that these leaders are only now drawing closer to Iran as a result of the U.S. drawdown is both patently ridiculous and misleading.
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The comments are similar to ones the former Utah governor made in New Hampshire on Thursday, when he called a drawdown of U.S. troops "inevitable."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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For a country whose reserves are running very low, Khor suggested, the court could organize the creditors to come to meet the debtor and scientifically calculate what the debt is worth and how much the creditors should be repaid - "in other words a drawdown on the debt."
Market News 2009
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As for a shorter-term drawdown -- which is what Taheri seems to mean by "a draw-down of the American military presence" -- Obama has never suggested that this should be delayed.
TPMMuckraker 2008
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These, he adds, won’t be ready for use until, at best, “later in 2011,” well after the Obama troop drawdown is set to begin.
Tom Engelhardt: The War Addicts: 2016 and Then Some Tom Engelhardt 2010
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These, he adds, won’t be ready for use until, at best, “later in 2011,” well after the Obama troop drawdown is set to begin.
Tom Engelhardt: The War Addicts: 2016 and Then Some Tom Engelhardt 2010
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These, he adds, won’t be ready for use until, at best, “later in 2011,” well after the Obama troop drawdown is set to begin.
Tom Engelhardt: The War Addicts: 2016 and Then Some Tom Engelhardt 2010
ecbrenner commented on the word drawdown
"The state in which the borrower obtains some of the project financing, usually progressively according to construction expenditures plus IDC." --Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
September 12, 2009