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• spiral downwards — ► if costs, prices, etc. spiral downwards, they go down quickly: »Stock prices have spiralled downwards for the past two weeks. Main Entry: ↑spiral …   Financial and business terms

• spiral — ▪ I. spiral spi‧ral 1 [ˈspaɪərəl ǁ ˈspaɪr ] noun [countable] a process, usually a harmful one, in which something continuously rises, falls, gets worse etc, often starting off slowly but gradually speeding up until it is out of control: • Sales… …   Financial and business terms

• spiral — [[t]spa͟ɪ͟ərəl[/t]] spirals, spiralling, spiralled (in AM, use spiraling, spiraled) 1) N COUNT A spiral is a shape which winds round and round, with each curve above or outside the previous one. ADJ GRADED: ADJ n Spiral is also an adjective. ...a …   English dictionary

• spiral — adj., n., & v. adj. 1 winding about a centre in an enlarging or decreasing continuous circular motion, either on a flat plane or rising in a cone; coiled. 2 winding continuously along or as if along a cylinder, like the thread of a screw. n. 1 a… …   Useful english dictionary

• spiral — I UK [ˈspaɪrəl] / US noun [countable] Word forms spiral : singular spiral plural spirals * 1) a) a shape that looks like a set of circles inside each other, made by one line curving inside itself b) a shape made by something that curves around a… …   English dictionary

• spiralling — Ⅰ. spiral UK US /ˈspaɪərəl/ noun [C] ► a situation in which prices, levels, rates, etc. go down, or in which a situation gets worse and is difficult to control because one bad event causes another: a spiral of sth »The world s two biggest… …   Financial and business terms

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