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stagnant

/stag-nuhnt/US // ˈstæg nənt //UK // (ˈstæɡnənt) //

停滞不前,停滞不前的,停滞,停顿

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not flowing or running, as water, air, etc.
    • : stale or foul from standing, as a pool of water.
    • : characterized by lack of development, advancement, or progressive movement: a stagnant economy.
    • : inactive, sluggish, or dull.

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Examples

  • We graduated into the Great Recession, burdened with debt and rewarded with stagnant wages, and endured the slowest economic growth faced by any generation in US history.

  • Starting in the 1990s, states sought to replicate the tribal model, gradually enabling nonreservation casinos to promote stagnant economies.

  • Another issue will be staffing, which has suffered in recent years from stagnant funding and a hiring freeze.

  • That means that some stagnant lid planets could create an atmosphere and even have temperate climates with liquid water, at least for a time.

  • Baker points out that this means workers may have to take in stagnant air that has been breathed in by people from multiple different households, upping their risk of catching a virus that may be floating around.

  • Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office.

  • Wages are stagnant and middle-class household incomes continue to decline.

  • Cory Gardner and others hammered on stagnant wages for the middle class.

  • Views on the controversial subject, Pew notes, have been more or less stagnant since 2005.

  • The stagnant pool of green water at the bottom of the ditch rises slightly.

  • But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."

  • A germ flies from a stagnant pool, and the laughing child, its mother's darling, dies dreadfully of diphtheria.

  • He was a refuge from herself; in his imperious demands her memory slept, her depths were stagnant.

  • A stagnant pool among some reeds caught the reflection of the sunset and changed on the instant into raw gold.

  • It was low and flat, and was traversed by broad ditches, generally full of stagnant water.