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pacification collapse: actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency; the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"

impairment collapse: damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality

sliding scale collapse: a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index

payroll collapse: the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee; a list of employees and their salaries; "the company had a long payroll"; the total amount of money paid in wages; "the company had a large payroll"

minimum wage collapse: the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law

sag collapse: a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat"; droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness; cause to sag; "The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably"

recapitulation collapse: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion; (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated

depletion collapse: the act of decreasing something markedly; the state of being depleted

lightening collapse: descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped

easement collapse: (law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land)

deduction collapse: reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect); something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"; an amount or percentage deducted

oxidation collapse: the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction

compression collapse: applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required; the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together; "the contraction of a gas on cooling"

concession collapse: a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park"; the act of conceding or yielding; a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions they asked for"

element collapse: the most favorable environment for a plant or animal; "water is the element of fishes"; a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone; the situation in which you are happiest and most effective; "in your element"; one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe; "the alchemists believed that there were four elements"

interpolation collapse: (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known; a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted; "with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told"; "with many insertions in the margins"

wage collapse: something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"

depreciation collapse: a decrease in price or value; "depreciation of the dollar against the yen"; decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use

summation collapse: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven"; a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court); (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce

separation collapse: the act of dividing or disconnecting; the social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state"; sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"; the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal); coming apart; the space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the separation between walls"; the state of lacking unity

constriction collapse: the action or process of compressing; a tight feeling in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat"; tight or narrow compression; a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

materiality collapse: the quality of being physical; consisting of matter; relevance requiring careful consideration

narrowing collapse: the act of making something narrower; an instance of becoming narrow; a decrease in width

derogation collapse: (law) the partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law; a partial repeal or abolition of a law; "any derogation of the common law is to be strictly construed"

syncope collapse: (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

weather collapse: the meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "they were hoping for good weather"; "every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception"; change under the action or influence of the weather; "A weathered old hut"; sail to the windward of; cause to slope; face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements"

subtraction collapse: the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"; an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

census collapse: a periodic count of the population; conduct a census; "They censused the deer in the forest"

weakening collapse: the act of reducing the strength of something; becoming weaker; moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker

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