Meaning

7 senses
  1. A sudden downward slope or cliff.

    a change downward

  2. A sudden downward slope or cliff.

    The precipitous outer side of a coral reef, facing the open sea.

  3. A decrease; especially, a sudden one.

    There has been an unexplained drop-off in sales this quarter.

    Abnahme, Minderung, Rückgang

  4. A delivery; the act of leaving a package, etc.

  5. (US, especially)A space reserved outside a bus or railway station for vehicles stopping to drop off passengers for onward transit.

  6. A time during which passengers, such as school children, are dropped off; the event or act of dropping them off.

  7. (Internet)A visitor to a website who ceases to continue using and navigating around the site after reaching some specified page; or such an act of cessation.

    We're seeing a lot of drop-offs on the shop product pages; why aren't people making purchases?

Translations

3 languages
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By meaning 1
sudden decrease:

Origin

Deverbal from drop off.

Deverbal from drop off.

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Forms

plural: drop-offs

Synonyms

11 synonyms
falloffstep-offset-downsetting-down
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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