Dictionary entry
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
- The fence consisted of two slack strands of barbed wire.
- The rope suddenly went slack.
- Her muscles felt slack.
- Slack safety standards
- Some slack defending allowed Valencia to score another goal.
- Business is usually slack in the winter.
- Demand for the product is slack.