stagnation

stagnate | American Dictionary

stagnate
verb[ I ]
us/ˈstæɡ·neɪt/
to stay the same and not grow or develop:
The local economy stagnated when the factories closed.

stagnation

noun[ U ]us/stæɡˈneɪ·ʃən/
High costs have caused stagnation in the building industries.

stagnate | Business English

stagnate
verb[ I ]
 ECONOMICSuk /stæɡˈneɪt/ us /ˈstæɡneɪt/
to stop growing or developing and not show any signs of activity:
The housing market stagnated as rising interest rates squeezed many buyers out of the market.
While the volume of traffic soared during the past two decades, transportation funding stagnated.

stagnating

adjective
Michigan is struggling with high unemployment and a stagnating economy.

Examples of stagnate

stagnate
The pinch stagnates on the axis of the primary hohlraum.
Those countries that stayed at this import industrialization substitution stage stagnated economically.
In spite of these investments, the cocoa industry stagnated during the oil boom years.
Much the same can be said of identifying those particular factors which cause some clusters to prosper and others to stagnate or wither away.
The result was to characterise an economy that began to stagnate around 1780.
It can be said with reasonable certainty that smallholder maize production has stagnated.
Primary school enrollments have stagnated at 74 per cent.
People with early onset disorder tended to stagnate in the basic level.
Thus, the evolution of ideas, like the evolution of organisms, should never stagnate for an indefinite period of time.
But if the only thing people did was to adapt to existing ideational environments, cultural evolution would stagnate.
Without a trade union of this kind, the lives of these government workers would stagnate much more seriously (ibid.).
During the third period, the number of business associations has been stagnating in number.
Funding problems and stagnating revenue performance in recent years are first indications that the sustainability of this donor intervention is under threat.
Easterly (1994), in a model with fixed factors and minimum consumption requirement, shows how economic policies determine whether countries stagnate or not.
Between that year and 1743, silver production stagnated, and in 1743, approximately 8.6 million pesos were coined.
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