downward drift

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• drift — ▪ I. drift drift 1 [drɪft] verb [intransitive] to go slowly up or down in value, without any particular direction: • London shares drifted in the absence of a statement from the Treasury. • The dollar drifted lower against other major currencies… …   Financial and business terms

• Drift Hypothesis — Drift Hypothesis, concerning the relationship between mental illness and social class, is the argument that illness causes someone s to have a downward shift in social class. [Hurst, Charles E. (2007) Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and… …   Wikipedia

• Drift hypothesis — Drift hypothesis, concerning the relationship between mental illness and social class, is the argument that illness causes one to have a downward shift in social class.[1] The circumstances of one s social class do not cause the onset of a mental …   Wikipedia

• drift — Synonyms and related words: Brownian movement, Zeitgeist, aberrancy, aberration, accumulation, advance, aeroplane, affective meaning, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aim, airlift, airplane, alluvion, alluvium, amble, angular motion, anthill, army,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Stokes drift — For a pure wave motion in fluid dynamics, the Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels with the fluid flow. For instance, a particle floating at the free surface of water waves,… …   Wikipedia

• Sand drift — Sand Sand, n. [AS. sand; akin to D. zand, G. sand, OHG. sant, Icel. sandr, Dan. & Sw. sand, Gr. ?.] 1. Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• social drift — A term used in social epidemiology , referring to movement down the social scale consequent on long term sickness, which contributes to the of tnoted concentration of sick persons in the lower social groups. This downward mobility, which may be… …   Dictionary of sociology

• post-earnings-announcement drift — /pəυst ˌɜ:nɪŋz ə naυnsmənt drɪft/ noun an unexplained downward movement of shares in companies following announcements that quarterly earnings have exceeded expectations …   Dictionary of banking and finance

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• Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview        Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …   Universalium

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