Usually means: Periods of decreased performance, productivity.
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  1. slumps: Merriam-Webster
  2. slumps: Collins English Dictionary
  3. slumps: Vocabulary.com
  4. Slumps, slump's, slumps: Wordnik
  5. slumps: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. slumps: Wiktionary
  7. slumps: Dictionary.com
  8. slumps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. slumps: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. slumps: Legal dictionary
  2. slumps: Financial dictionary

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  1. slumps: Encyclopedia

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  1. slumps: Idioms

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  1. slumps: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (slump)

verb:  (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
verb:  (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
verb:  (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
verb:  (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
verb:  To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun:  A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
noun:  (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
noun:  A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
noun:  (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
noun:  (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
noun:  (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
noun:  (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
noun:  (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
noun:  A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
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