[
UK
/plˈʌmɪt/
]
[ US /ˈpɫəmət/ ]
[ US /ˈpɫəmət/ ]
VERB
-
drop sharply
The stock market plummeted
NOUN
- the metal bob of a plumb line
How To Use plummet In A Sentence
- Polls show that support for a change has plummeted following the royal visits. Times, Sunday Times
- A new study showed that while street crime is rocketing, the number of thugs brought to book is plummeting. The Sun
- His critics say he should resign because he has lost the moral ascendancy to govern and to save the plummeting economy from collapse.
- Spending in town centres has plummeted over the past decade. Times, Sunday Times
- Rising next to the CCTV building, and also designed by OMA, the dazzling Television Cultural Center, or TVCC, peaks and plummets like a mountain cloaked in corrugated zinc. Road to Beijing | Impact Lab
- The scaleup has been made largely possible by rising donations and falling price for drugs, which have plummeted from 10,000 dollars to 300 dollars per person per year in three years. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Thursday's trading glitch -- in which the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted over 500 points in five minutes -- was not the first time U.S. markets have hiccuped, nor will it be the last. How The Dow's Dramatic Plunge Could Have Been Prevented
- The violent storm, with its 70-mile-per-hour winds, tore loose the airship's control cabin, which plummeted earthward like a boulder.
- The fashion pack has also got the art of layering velvet down pat, which is important when temperatures are plummeting. Times, Sunday Times
- And although the idea of a little surgical help to zap away excess fat seems tempting, cosmetic weight loss ops plummeted last year. The Sun