: a decline especially in quantity or quality
a falloff in exports
a falloff of light intensity
fell off; fallen off; falling off; falls off
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of a ship
: to deviate to leeward of the point to which the bow was directed
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Examples of falloff in a Sentence
Noun
the falloff in sales was more than the store could weather and so its closing was inevitable
Verb
the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay
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Boris Kachka, Vulture, 16 May 2024
The falloff mirrors what workers at Wall Street’s biggest banks will endure this year, as business has slowed and companies like Citigroup Inc. and others pare back expenses, according to projections from compensation consultant Johnson Associates.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2024
Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
Lyon would eventually learn that Cal, who worked as a house painter, died after falling off a ladder and breaking his neck.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 21 June 2024
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Noun
Audiences are down 17 percent since the boom season of 2018–19 with older suburbanites accounting for most of the falloff.
—Boris Kachka, Vulture, 16 May 2024
The falloff mirrors what workers at Wall Street’s biggest banks will endure this year, as business has slowed and companies like Citigroup Inc. and others pare back expenses, according to projections from compensation consultant Johnson Associates.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2024
Verb
That this meme was nowhere to be found the past few springs tells you how hard Timberlake has fallen off.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
Lyon would eventually learn that Cal, who worked as a house painter, died after falling off a ladder and breaking his neck.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 21 June 2024
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“Falloff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/falloff. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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