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drop off

verb as in decrease

verb as in deliver

verb as in fall asleep

noun as in falling off, decline

noun as in stash of drugs

noun as in downswing

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The effort has not just been focused on “drop-off” voters—that is, Democrats who voted in 2012 but not in the 2010 midterms.

Not far from the drop-off point, the team ran into their first roadblock.

The drop-off is even steeper over the past 30 years: in 1982 the number was 56.4 percent.

The U.S. economic recovery, largely driven by a recovery in housing, could be threatened by this drop-off.

But I would expect to see some drop-off in applications, perhaps a substantial one.

A fine, large fire was started on the ledge of rock that extended out from the "Shelter" to a drop-off of some twenty feet.

I crossed a mesa and came to an abrupt drop-off—two hundred feet sheer.

Here we met another problem, in the form of a rounded ten foot drop-off to the concrete table.

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On this page you'll find 214 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to drop-off, such as: deceleration, decline, delay, downtrend, downturn, and drop.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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