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• Declining or deteriorating.

  ‘salaries are on the slide’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Shares have been on the slide for a couple of years, so investors are now running scared.’
  • ‘While he is seen as decisive and effective, public confidence in him as the next prime minister is on the slide.’
  • ‘With profits on the slide over the past year or two, it's inevitable that 'defensive' mergers will increase in frequency.’
  • ‘"We were in relegation trouble and the club was on the slide," he recalls.’
  • ‘The latest survey says house prices are on the slide, with prices falling at their fastest rate for two years.’