slacker, Slacklining, webbing, high wire, sluggish, slackening,disenfranchised, Self-induced sluggishness

Iranian slackliners Kiavash Sharifi, left and Mohammad Reza Abaee walk on a slackline anchored between two rocks in the mountains near Arak, south west of Tehran, Iran. A growing number of Iranians are embracing the extreme sport of slacklining - a high-wire walk on a flat line of webbing strung between rocks or trees up to 60 metres (196 feet) above the ground. The webbing provides slightly more stability than a round cord but is also bouncier.

6 Million Americans Without a Voice

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

States should listen to Attorney General Holder and repeal unjust and outdated felon disenfranchisement laws.

Self-induced sluggishness

This year will probably be a pretty bad one for the world economy; it doesn’t have to be(14)

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"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Established technology companies are struggling with slackening demand, while venture capitalists are telling start-ups to cut costs.

Sony and Microsoft hope new online services and recent price cuts will bolster their videogame business, as they head into a likely sluggish holiday season.

Micron Technology will cut about 15% of its global work force the next two years as it battles slumping memory chip prices.

Yahoo is facing seven shareholder lawsuits alleging the slumping Internet pioneer bungled its response to Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid.

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bungle

v., -gled, -gling, -gles. v.intr.
To work or act ineptly or inefficiently.

v.tr.
To handle badly; botch. See synonyms at botch.

n.
A clumsy or inept performance; a botch: made a bungle of the case due to inexperience.

[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]

bungler bun'gler n.
bunglingly bun'gling·ly adv.


slump (REDUCE SUDDENLY) verb [I]
(of prices, values or sales) to fall suddenly:
The value of property has slumped.
Car sales have slumped dramatically over the past year.

slump 
noun [C]
1 a fall in the price, value, sales, etc. of something:
There's been a slump in the demand for new cars.

2 a period when an industry or the economy is in a bad state and there is a lot of unemployment:
an economic slump
The airline industry is currently in a slump.

"Bungler, Stumper.""Nonentity," hodman

slug・gish

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━━ a. 不精な, 怠ける; のろい; 不活発な.
slug・gish・ly　ad.
slug・gish・ness　n.

slack (NOT ACTIVE) Show phonetics
adjective
showing a lack of activity; not busy or happening in a positive way:
Business is always slack at this time of year.
DISAPPROVING Discipline in Mr Brown's class has become very slack recently.
DISAPPROVING The job is taking a long time because the workmen are so slack.

slack Show phonetics
verb [I] INFORMAL
to work slower and with less effort than usual, or to go slower:
Everyone slacks off/up a bit at the end of the week.
DISAPPROVING You'll be in trouble if you're caught slacking on the job like that.
Slack off your speed as you approach the corner.

slacken Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to (cause to) become slower or less active:
He stooped to pick it up, without slackening his pace (= without walking more slowly).
The pace of trading slackened during the winter months.
The management expects demand to slacken (off) in the New Year.
The car's speed slackened (off) as it went up a steep hill.
Most people slacken off/up at the end of a day's work.

slacker Show phonetics
noun [C] INFORMAL DISAPPROVING
a person who does not work hard enough:
Those slackers have gone home early again.

Definition of slacker

noun

informal

• a person who avoids work or effort: the slackers who let the side down by their want of team spirit
• US a person who evades military service.
• chiefly North American a young person (especially in the 1990s) of a subculture characterized by apathy and aimlessness: they are portrayed as dreamy, disenfranchised slackers [as modifier]:slacker culture

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   2. Slacklining is the use of a form of webbing that is tensioned between two anchor points to balance. Slacklining is similar to slack rope walking and tightrope walking as the line is held under tension.

   3. Slacklining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Definition of webbing in English:

noun

[MASS NOUN]織帶

1Strong, closely woven fabric used for making items such as straps and belts, and for supporting the seats of upholstered chairs:[AS MODIFIER]: webbing straps

1.1The system of belts, pouches, and straps worn by a soldier as part of his combat uniform.

2The part of a baseball glove between the thumb andforefinger:just when the ball is about to go past him, he leaps up and snags it in the webbing of his glove

Definition of high wire in English:

noun

1A high tightrope.

1.1[AS MODIFIER] Denoting an activity requiring great skill or judgement:the high-wire act performed daily by many mental health workers

disenfranchise

Syllabification: dis·en·fran·chise

Pronunciation: /ˌdisenˈfranCHīz/

(also disfranchise /disˈfranCHīz/)

verb

[with object]

• 1 deprive (someone) of the right to vote: the law disenfranchised some 3,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification
  

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• 1.1 (as adjective disenfranchised) deprived of power; marginalized: a hard core of kids who are disenfranchised and don’t feel connected to the school
• 1.2deprive (someone) of a right or privilege: a measure that would disenfranchise people from access to legal advice
  

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• 1.3 • archaic deprive (someone) of the rights and privileges of a free inhabitant of a borough, city, or country.
  

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Derivatives

disenfranchisement
noun

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slackness Show phonetics
noun [U]
1 when something is slower and less active than usual:
Low sales figures were partly because of normal mid-summer slackness in/of demand.

2 DISAPPROVING when a person or organization is not working as well and as hard as they should:
The inspector criticized the slackness and incompetence of the staff.