[
US
/ˈnoʊzˌdaɪv/
]
[ UK /nˈəʊzdaɪv/ ]
[ UK /nˈəʊzdaɪv/ ]
VERB
- plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft
NOUN
-
a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline
the stock took a nosedive - a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
How To Use nosedive In A Sentence
- Unfortunately for both, their careers took a nosedive after they both became embroiled in controversy.
- These policies have sent the construction industry into an abrupt nosedive.
- The bank yesterday revealed a 30 per cent nosedive in profits.
- In August, it sold £7.4 billion worth of European government bonds and then, after prices had nosedived on the back of the huge sale, bought a portion back at a profit.
- Then the great depression of the 1930s ruined the economy and Prince Industries' stock took a plummeting nosedive.
- And it only fuels employees' ire when they lose savings in stock nosedives and otherwise feel a lack of financial and personal support.
- If you put all your cash into one share and it nosedives, you are in trouble.
- Radio communications between the shuttle commander and mission control fell largely silent as the shuttle nosedived toward the Mojave Desert landing strip.
- Oil prices took a nosedive in the crisis.
- Then the film career nosedived when the diminutive comic suffered the indignity of playing a cute elf - the role he was born to play! Times, Sunday Times
