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UK
/fˈɔːlɒf/
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[ US /ˈfɔˌɫɔf/ ]
[ US /ˈfɔˌɫɔf/ ]
NOUN
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a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
a gradual slack in output
a falloff in quality
the team went into a slump
a drop-off in attendance
How To Use falloff In A Sentence
- Can the other teams raise their games enough to counterbalance that potential falloff?
- If the oligopolistic competition has power-law falloff and there is increased local competition among agents, then the model has a rich phase diagram with an antiferromagnetic checkerboard state, striped states and maze-like states with varying widths, and finally a paramagnetic state. Strange Science
- But taking on the grifters would destroy the show's reputation, which would mean a falloff in customers, more clems with the towners, and eventually being frozen off planet by most or all of the profitable stands that the show had developed. City of Baraboo
- a falloff in quality
- The purple varieties can be quite beautiful, but they are far less vigorous growers and there has been a noticeable falloff in the purpleness of both the above varieties since their introduction.
- The company has detected no significant falloff rise in mortgages in demand since the vote. Times, Sunday Times
- The slide for oil and other commodity prices suggests a "disinflation" process is under way, as the falloff in demand from consumers and commercial interests world-wide overshadows questions of supply, driving prices down. Starbucks and AmEx Lead Stocks' Decline
- Investors that have flocked to gold this year will likely turn to other asset classes for better returns, leaving too few buyers to offset the falloff in jewelry demand, the bank said in a report. Gold Steadies
- We won't see a falloff in nonfuel spending," Badillo said in an interview. Oil price at $110 may trigger pain U.S. CEOs weathered at $100
- Rather, I mean, lens vignetting, where a special lens or lens hood is used to achieve a gradual light falloff toward the corners of the image frame.