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Slack off

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Definition

slack 1 /slæk/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ မတင္းေသာ။ ေလ်ာ့ေသာ။ a slack rope ❍ his slack, half-open mouth ❍ Let the reins go slack. ၂။ (အေရာင္းအဝယ္၊ လုပ္ငန္း) ပါးေသာ၊ ထိုင္းေသာ၊ ေအးေသာ။ a slack period ❍ times of slack demand ❍ Trade is slack at the moment. ၃။ ( derog ) (က) ေပါ့ဆေသာ။ ပ်င္းရိေသာ။ be slack in one's work. (ခ) ေလ်ာ့ရဲေသာ။ Discipline in the classroom is very slack. ❍ The conference organization was rather slack. v အပ်င္းထူသည္။ ခိုကတ္သည္။ Stop slacking and get on with your work! n [U] ၁။ အိက်ေနေသာ၊ အိုင့္ေနေသာ၊ အိုက္ေနေသာ အပိုင္း။ too much slack in the tow-rope. ၂။ (အေရာင္းအဝယ္၊ လုပ္ငန္း) မေကာင္းေသာ၊ ပါးေသာ၊ ထိုင္းေသာ အခါကာလ။ There's plenty of slack in the economy. ❏ slacker n ( infml ) အပ်င္းထူသူ။ အလုပ္ခိုကတ္သူ။ ❏ slackly adv ေလ်ာ့ေလ်ာ့ရဲရဲ။ a slackly open mouth. slackness n [U] ❏ slack off [ PHRV ] (လႈပ္ရွားမႈ၊ အားထုတ္မႈ၊ အရိွန္ စသည္) ေလွ်ာ့ခ်သည္။ We're not so busy now, so we can slack off a bit. ❍ The rain seems to be slacking off. မိုးပါး လာဟန္ရိွသည္။ See also SLACKEN ❏ take up the slack [ IDM ] ၁။ စီးပြားလုပ္ငန္းတြင္ လူ၊ ဘ႑ာ၊ စြမ္းအင္တို႔ကို ပိုမိုထိေရာက္စြာ အသံုးခ်သည္။ [ဥ] ဝက္အူ က်ပ္ ေပးသည္။ ၂။ လြန္ႀကိဳးစသည္ကို တင္းေပးသည္။ We took up the slack and then pulled as hard as we could. slack 2 /slæk/ n [U] ေက်ာက္မီးေသြးစ အမႈန္အမႊား။

Examples

  1. The fence consisted of two slack strands of barbed wire.
  2. The rope suddenly went slack.
  3. Her muscles felt slack.
  4. Slack safety standards
  5. Some slack defending allowed Valencia to score another goal.
  6. Business is usually slack in the winter.
  7. Demand for the product is slack.