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There has been no dropoff from last season in his performance.
Perhaps the biggest cause of change in the market is the drop-off in supply.
A dropoff in participation at age 12 occurs in most youth sports.
He thinks that the drop-off in the number of left-handed top tennis players might simply be a fluke.
During this period brain activity decreases dramatically but after 24 hours, the drop-off stabilizes.
The buses travel along mountain roads perilously close to heart stopping drop-offs.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming and making smaller or less
abridgment
attenuate
attenuated
attenuating
attenuation
compress
contraction
deflation
dwindle
dwindling
ease
ease someone's mindidiom
ease up/off
halve
recede
reduce
reducible
reduction
resize
trough

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Falling and dropping

drop-offnoun[C] (TAKING SB/STH)

an act of taking someone or something to a particular place, usually by car, and leaving them there: 让汽车乘客下车;从汽车上卸货
The van belonged to a delivery driver making a drop-off.这辆货车属于正在卸货的送货司机。
School drop-offs cause traffic chaos in some cities.学生下车进校引起交通混乱。
a place where someone or something is brought, usually by car, and left: （汽车）下客处，留弃（物品）处
Never dispose of antifreeze or paint thinner down the drain; take them to a hazardous waste drop-off. 切勿将防冻液或油漆稀释剂倒入下水道，应将其送到危险废物投放留弃处。
If you are bringing someone to the hospital, you can drive as far as the drop-off area.如果您要送某人去医院，您可以一直开到下客处。
The hotel offers a free pickup and dropoff at the airport.
He was observed meeting with suspected accomplices and making drop-offs of money.
Your child may not be ready for a dropoff playdate with a new friend, and prefer you to stay.
People smugglers deliver immigrants to remote drop-offs with little concern for their welfare.
You can collect a box of organic fruit and vegetables from the drop-off location each week.
More drop-off sites should be provided for waste electronic items.

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Taking someone somewhere or telling them the way
accompanied by someone/something
accompany
accompany someone to something
bring
bring someone/something along
direct
drop
lead
manhandle
refer
ride
see someone off
self-guided
shepherd
stick
taken
under escort
usher
usherette
walk

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drop off | American Dictionary

drop off

phrasal verb with dropverbus/drɑp/-pp-

(BEGIN TO SLEEP)

to begin to sleep:
I must have dropped off during the show, because I don’t remember how it ended.

drop off something/someone

phrasal verb with dropverbus/drɑp/-pp-

(LEAVE)

to take someone or something, esp. by car, to a particular place:
I’m about to leave – can I drop you off somewhere on my way home?

drop off | Business English

drop off

phrasal verb with dropverbuk /drɒp/us-pp-
(UK alsodrop away)
[ I ]
to become lower in level, value, price, etc.:
Business dropped off a little during the summer.
The company's growth dropped off steadily to 0.3% last year.
The telecoms' downturn meant that potential sales and profits dropped away.
drop-off
noun[ C, usually singular ]
(alsodropoff)ukus
a reduction in the amount or level of something:
Analysts say the employment drop-off is directly linked to a slowdown in housing construction
a drop-off in sthThere was a sharp drop-off in industrial production in December.
a slight/steep/significant drop-off
expect/notice/see a drop-off
TRANSPORT
an act of taking people, goods, mail, etc. to a place, or the place where you take them:
Passenger drop-off is allowed only in the designated area.
recycling/waste drop-offTake anti-freeze, paint thinners, or other chemicals to a hazardous waste drop-off.
drop-off area/centre/point

Examples of drop off

drop off
There is a special protected drop-off lane on the eastbound side.
The result of this last process is a gradual drop-off in reaction time and error rate.
It is also the drop-off point for buses before the vehicle ramp descends into the car park.
Setting a limit on the number of concurrent connections would help to flatten the graph after the drop-off point.
This screen incorporates controlled doors for the ambulance drop-off into the waiting area.
The most northern reaches of the region experienced the highest drop-off.
These interval estimates are more appealing than those found with ad-hoc methods, such as the ' lod drop-off ' in maximum likelihood.
The rate of intensity drop-off is a function of the intensity of the pulse.
The relatively large drop-off in technical efficiency during the monsoon season might seem to present a favorable opportunity for a captain's training or extension program to raise technical efficiency.
A shar p drop-off was noted between the first and second samples across all measures, with lear ner perfor mance then improving steadily until the end of the study.
The problem for women's sport in particular is the massive drop-off rate during the teenage years.
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