Crossword-Solution: SLIPPAGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Slippage | n. | The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SLIPPAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Gear teeth trouble | 1 answer |
| Lag in production. | 1 answer |
| Transmission problem | 1 answer |
| failing to hold or slipping out of place | 1 answer |
| Failure to meet a deadline | 2 answers |
| Falling off | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZMEAEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SLIPPAGE (5)
Elections held in 1994 diverted government attention from the economy, resulting in slippage and delays in the economic reform program.
Ongoing Ugandan involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, growing corruption within the government, and slippage in the government's determination to press reforms raise doubts about the continuation of strong growth.
Ongoing Ugandan involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, corruption within the government, and slippage in the government's determination to press reforms raise doubts about the continuation of strong growth.
The actual working load was first applied and no deflection, cracking, or slippage of the bars was apparent; but, as the loading was continued, deflection set in and increased rapidly for small increments of loading, a number of fine cracks opened up near the mid-section, which extended to the neutral plane, and the steel slipped just enough, when drawn taut, to destroy what bond there was originally, owing to the contact of the concrete above.
While some of this strain is released by moderate and smaller earthquakes and by slippage without earthquakes, geologic studies indicate that the vast bulk of the strain is released through the occurrence of major earthquakes--that is, earthquakes with Richter magnitudes of 7.0 and larger and capable of widespread damage in a developed region.
Quotes with SLIPPAGE (3)
Try telling the boy who’s just had his girlfriend’s namecut into his arm that there’s slippage between the signifierand the signified. Or better yet explain to the girlwho watched in the mirror as the tattoo artist stitchedthe word for her father’s name (on earth as in heaven) across her back that words aren’t made of flesh and blood, that they don’t bite the skin. Language is the animalwe’ve trained to pick up the scent of meaning. It’s whywhen the boy hears his father yelli…
In its severe forms, depression paralyzes all of the otherwise vital forces that make us human, leaving instead a bleak, despairing, desperate, and deadened state. . .Life is bloodless, pulseless, and yet present enough to allow a suffocating horror and pain. All bearings are lost; all things are dark and drained of feeling. The slippage into futility is first gradual, then utter. Thought, which is as pervasively affected by depression as mood, is morbid, confused, and stupor…
Dimly--at first wary that it was merely a dislodged fragment of the dream--she remembered Resurgam. And then, slowly, events returned, not as a tidal wave, or even as as landslide, but as a slow, squelching slippage: a disembowelment of the past.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1967–2022).