Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of slipping, especially movement away from an original or secure place.
- noun The amount or extent of slipping.
- noun A decline in level, performance, or achievement.
- noun Loss of motion or power because of slipping.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of slipping; also, in mech., the amount of slip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of slipping, especially from a secure location.
- noun The amount something has slipped.
- noun A lessening of performance or achievement.
- noun A decrease in motion, or in the power of a mechanical system due to slipping.
- noun The difference between estimated and actual transaction costs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun failing to hold or slipping out of place
- noun decline from a standard level of performance or achievement
- noun a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping
Etymologies
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Examples
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That kind of slippage is repeatedly justified by saying that there's no time for deliberations, for archaic constitutional procedures.
IsThatLegal? 2004
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Among all Americans, the slippage is even greater - from 59 percent in February to just 35 percent today.
Most think Catholic Church poorly dealt with child abuse scandal 2010
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Most of the president's slippage is among Republicans; their approval of his work overall has dropped by 16 points since April, from 36 percent then to 20 percent now.
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Most of the president's slippage is among Republicans; their approval of his work overall has dropped by 16 points since April and this from ABC news poll.
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Meanwhile, Ross Walker, U.K. economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, said it's unlikely that any near-term slippage in implementing cuts will fundamentally undermine market confidence.
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We were forewarned by their word slippage during the campaign of '08.
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Most of the bloggers talking about it seem to have assumed that it approaches perfect precision, which actually does set up a paradox at an idealized equilibrium, in that the starving ass, undeniably motivated to eat something, would be unable actually to eat anything because there would be no 'slippage' - randomness, say, or indeterminacy - for acting one way or another.
Buridan's Ass Chris 2004
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I did, but I also allowed myself some "slippage" - what the industry calls the profits lost to sneaky bartenders.
New York Press 2009
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This video shows San Diego fire officials are calling a slippage of land.
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This video shows what San Diego fire officials are calling a slippage of land.
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