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slack
Word family
slack1 /slæk/ adjectiveadj
3 CARELESSnot taking enough care or making enough effort to do things correctly – used to show disapproval 懒散的，懈怠的，马虎的〔含贬义〕 SYN careless
—slackly adverbadv
—slackness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
slack• The fan belt is a little slack.• The report criticized airport security as "disgracefully slack."• I let the rope go slack as the boat came closer.• Corporate profits have been hurt by slack demand.• She didn't want to come against the flat slack flesh.• This can result due to reductions in overmanning and improvements in other types of slack management procedures.• If the rope between climbers is slack, one slip can be fatal.• Savings and loan institutions, for example, were once high slack systems, and appropriately so in a regulated industry.• Today a changing environment has forced many such organization either to become low slack systems or to go out of business.• Keep the rope slack till I say `pull'.• Her body went momentarily slack with relief, or was it disappointment?
slack2 noun
1 take up/pick up the slack
a) to make a system or organization as efficient as possible by making sure that money, space, or people are fully used 〔通过充分利用金钱、空间、人员等〕使效率提高
b) INSTEADto do something that needs to be done because someone else is no longer doing it 接过别人停下的工作
3 [uncountableU]AVAILABLE money, space, people, or time that an organization or person has available, but is not using fully 〔资金、地方、人员、时间等的〕富余部分，闲置部分
4 cut/give somebody some slack spoken to allow someone to do something without criticizing them or making it more difficult 放某人一马，饶了某人
Examples from the Corpus
Examples from the Corpus
slack• An ordinary plaid blouse, and slacks, I decide.• He wore a short-sleeved shirt and pale cinnamon slacks.• The idea of Jim Morrison in a pair of black cotton slacks doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?• Leave a little slack in the line.• The workforce has been reduced, so there's very little slack in the system.• People in San Francisco seem to have no slack in their lives anymore.• Therese was huddled in nearly every garment she possessed, slacks, jumpers, her shabby grey coat and the multicoloured shawl.• Hand coils create unwanted slack and immediately tighten around the hand under load, trapping the fingers and preventing an effective arrest.• Sheila sauntered in wearing slacks and an artificial-silk print blouse with a bow at around 7: 30.• Lucy never wore slacks or make-up, except when he permitted it in order to cover a bruise.
slack3 (also slack off) verb [intransitiveI]
Examples from the Corpus
slack• She called me into her office and accused me of slacking and taking too many holidays!• The horse slacked his pace, swung his neck down to ease the tension in it, and relaxed his tail.• It did not slack in the least until Centreville was reached.• I guess I thought that since everything was starting to turn around, I could slack off a little.• A lifetime of low-level employment is a high price to pay for slacking off in junior high.• Antonio Ramos, a mariachi since he turned 12, has seen the work for mariachis slack off too.• This is no time to be slacking off!• But Le Carré's not slacking off.• "You start tomorrow at nine, " he told them, "and no slacking, or there'll be trouble."
From Longman Business Dictionary
slackslack1 /slæk/ adjectiveadj
1COMMERCEa slack period of time is one with less business activity than usual
Business is slack just now.
The workers feared being laid off (=losing their jobs) in slack periods.
2if someone is being slack, they are not taking enough care or making enough effort to do things right
The report criticized airport security as “disgracefully slack”.
High prices and the absence of competition may make firms slack in their use of resources.
—slackness noun [uncountableU]
the slackness of the London market at present
The report accuses the government of slackness.
slackslack2 (also slack off) verb [intransitiveI]
to make less of an effort than usual or be lazy in your work
He was accused of slacking and taking too many holidays.
Origin slack1
Old English sleac
slack1 adjectiveadjslack2 nounslack3 verb
Chinese
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slack
Loose and not held firmly in place: loose, slack, free-floating...
Lazy or slow to act: lazy, idle, indolent...
Unsuccessful: failed, abortive, fruitless...
Not busy and not working: available, quiet, off-duty...
Lazy Behaviour: inertia, sloth, ...
Relating to the forming and breaking up of organizations: reshuffle, fracture, poach...
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