- slack season
- несезонное время, мертвый сезон Syn : low season, off-season
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slack season
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slack season — dry season, lack of demand, decrease in distribution of goods … English contemporary dictionary
slack season — / slæk ˌsi:z(ə)n/ noun a period when a company is not very busy … Marketing dictionary in english
season — [sē′zən] n. [ME sesoun < OFr seson < VL satio, season for sowing < L, a sowing, planting < base of serere, to sow: see SEED] 1. any of the four arbitrary divisions of the year, characterized chiefly by differences in temperature,… … English World dictionary
slack — slack1 slackingly, adv. slackly, adv. slackness, n. /slak/, adj. 1. not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope. 2. negligent; careless; remiss: slack proofreading. 3. slow, sluggish, or indolent: He is slack in answering letters … Universalium
slack — I [[t]slæk[/t]] adj. slack•er, slack•est, adv. n. v. adj. 1) not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope[/ex] 2) negligent; careless; remiss 3) slow, sluggish, or indolent: slack in answering letters[/ex] 4) not active or busy; dull; not … From formal English to slang
season — 1 / si:zFn/ noun 1 IN A YEAR (C) one of the four main periods in a year; spring, summer, autumn, or winter 2 USUAL TIME FOR STH (singular) a period of time in a year when something happens most often or when something is usually done:… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
slack off — {v. phr.} 1. To become less active; grow lazy. * /Since construction work has been slacking off toward the end of the summer, many workers were dismissed./ 2. To gradually reduce; taper off. * /The snowstorms tend to slack off over the Great… … Dictionary of American idioms
slack off — {v. phr.} 1. To become less active; grow lazy. * /Since construction work has been slacking off toward the end of the summer, many workers were dismissed./ 2. To gradually reduce; taper off. * /The snowstorms tend to slack off over the Great… … Dictionary of American idioms
season — n. 1) to open, usher in the (a) season 2) to close, usher out the (a) season 3) the dead, low, off, slack; high season 4) (sports) the baseball; basketball; fishing; football; hunting; open season 5) the dry; harvest; holiday; hurricane; mating,… … Combinatory dictionary
slack — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English slak, from Old English sleac; akin to Old High German slah slack, Latin laxus slack, loose, languēre to languish, Greek lagnos lustful and perhaps to Greek lēgein to stop Date: before 12th century 1. not… … New Collegiate Dictionary
slack — adj. 1 loose VERBS ▪ be, feel, look, seem ▪ become, fall, go ▪ My jaw fell slack in disbelief … Collocations dictionary
