Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable)A disappointment or anticlimax.

    After seeing all the advertisements, the show itself was quite a let-down.

    Enttäuschung

    крахkrax, разочарова́ниеrazočarovánije, прова́лprovál

  2. (countable, uncountable)The neurohormonal release of milk in dairy cows or in breastfeeding human mothers.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The clearance of an aircraft to descend through clouds to clear air below, or the process of granting such a clearance.

    The flight received a radar letdown from air traffic control.

Translations

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Deutsch
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Origin

Deverbal from let down.

Deverbal from let down.

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Forms

plural: let-downs

Word family

1 related words
Relatedlet down

See also

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