slack / slæk /

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slack5 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
  2. negligent; careless; remiss: slack proofreading.
  3. slow, sluggish, or indolent: He is slack in answering letters.
adv. 副词 adverb
  1. in a slack manner.
n. 名词 noun
  1. a slack condition or part.
  2. the part of a rope, sail, or the like, that hangs loose, without strain upon it.
  3. a decrease in activity, as in business or work: a sudden slack in output.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to be remiss in respect to; shirk; leave undone: He slacked the most important part.
  2. to make or allow to become less active, vigorous, intense, etc.; relax; lessen; moderate.
  3. to make loose, or less tense or taut, as a rope; loosen.
  4. to slake.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to be remiss; shirk one's duty or part.
  2. to become less active, vigorous, rapid, etc.: Business is slacking up.
  3. to become less tense or taut, as a rope; to ease off.
  4. to become slaked, as lime.

slack 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

loose, baggy; inactive

adj. 形容词 adjective

lazy, negligent

n. 名词 noun

looseness, excess

更多slack例句

  1. Restrictions on overtime pay under DeJoy may have prevented full-time workers at some facilities from adding hours to pick up some of the slack.
  2. Where money and technology fail, though, it inevitably falls to government policies — and government subsidies — to pick up the slack.
  3. When the BLS lists workers by full- or part-time status, they also track whether that status is due to economic reasons — like a slowdown in that industry or a slack job market — or noneconomic reasons.
  4. Underlings gave Clark, who has worked at Amazon during almost all of his career, that moniker after he told them that early in his tenure he would hide in the shadows at warehouses seeking to catch lazy workers slacking off who he could fire.
  5. With Gaspar’s low fundraising total, for instance, the conservative Lincoln Club that supports her might consider picking up the slack to help her stay competitive.
  6. He knew I was a Chicago guy, and he cut me absolutely no slack.
  7. To the contrary: since the 2011 ouster of Gaddafi, the world has cut Libya a lot of slack.
  8. Answering a question from fellow Foxer Geraldo Rivera—does the right-leaning network cut President Obama enough slack?
  9. Other women can often be the worst at cutting any slack towards the love interest in a sex scandal.
  10. At the same time, I cut myself slack, because my creative reach went beyond my skill level.
  11. An amount of slack in the chain caused the balls to knock on passing this roller before entering the pump bottom.
  12. I went into the dugout indescribably slack; hardly energy to struggle against the heat and the myriads of flies.
  13. Lost Sister had fashioned a rude litter out of rawhide and two saplings, slack between the poles so the girl could not roll out.
  14. His crew soon produced from the slack of their frocks pieces of plug, which they passed on board in exchange for our eggs.
  15. At length I gave up the contest, led him with a slack rein, and pulled no longer.