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drop1 /drɒp $ drɑːp/ ●●● S1 W2 verb (dropped, dropping)  
1  let STH fall 让某物掉落 [transitiveT]
a) FALLto stop holding or carrying something so that it falls 让〔某物〕落下
 He dropped his briefcase on a chair.
他把公文包丢在椅子上。
 She screamed and dropped the torch.
她尖叫一声，把手电筒丢在了地上。
b) to make something such as a bomb fall from a plane 〔飞机〕空投，丢，扔〔炸弹等〕
 U.S. planes began dropping bombs on the city.
美国飞机开始轰炸该城市。
 Supplies are being dropped for the refugees.
正在向难民空投物资。
2  fall 落下 [intransitiveI]FALL to fall suddenly onto the ground or into something 掉下，落下
drop from/off
 The apples are beginning to drop from the trees.
苹果开始从树上落下来了。
 Your button has dropped off.
你的纽扣掉了。
3  move your body down 低下身子 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep, transitiveT]BEND to lower yourself or part of your body suddenly （使）忽然倒下，坐下
drop down/onto/into
 He dropped down onto the floor and hid under the table.
他蹲到地板上，藏在桌子底下。
 She dropped her head back against the cushion.
她倒头靠在靠垫上。
4  become less 变少 [intransitiveI]LESS to fall to a lower level or amount, especially a much lower level or amount 〔水平〕降低；〔数量〕减少
drop suddenly/sharply/dramatically
 The number of deaths on the roads has dropped sharply.
交通事故死亡人数已大大减少。
 Temperatures drop quite dramatically at night, so bring some warm clothing.
夜里气温骤降，所以要带上些暖和的衣服。
drop to
 Their share of the market dropped to 50 percent this year.
今年他们的市场占有率下降到了50%。
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5  reduce 减少 [transitiveT]LESS to reduce the level or amount of something 降低〔…的水平〕；减少〔…的数量〕
 You might be able to get them to drop the price.
你也许能够让他们把价格降下来。
 As soon as she saw the police car she dropped her speed.
她一看到警车就放慢了速度。
6  not include 不包括 [transitiveT]DS to decide not to include someone or something 剔除，把…除名
 His name was dropped from the list.
他被剔除出名单。
drop somebody from a team/side
 Taylor was bitterly disappointed to be dropped from the England side.
泰勒对没入选英格兰队感到非常失望。
7  stop doing STH 停止做某事 [transitiveT]STOP DOING something to stop doing something, discussing something, or continuing with something 停止，放弃
 The proposal was dropped after opposition from civil liberties groups.
遭到公民自由组织的反对后这一提案便被驳回了。
drop charges/drop a case
 New evidence was presented to the court and the case was dropped.
新的证据提交给法庭后该案就被撤销了。
drop a subject at school/university (=stop studying it) 在学校/大学退修[不学]一科
 Students are allowed to drop history in Year 9.
九年级的学生可以不学历史。
 You can’t expect me to drop everything (=completely stop doing whatever I am doing) whenever you’re in town.
你不能指望你一进城我就得放下手头的所有事情。
 Oh, drop the ‘Senator’ (=stop calling me ‘Senator’) – just call me Gordon.
噢，不要叫我 “参议员” ，就叫我戈登吧。
 Some time later, the matter was quietly dropped.
过了一段时间，这件事就不了了之了。
8  stop talking about STH 停止谈论某事 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]STOP DOING something to stop talking about something 停止谈论
9  take SB somewhere 送某人到某处 (also drop off) [transitiveT]TTC to take someone by car to a place and leave them there, especially on your way to another place 〔开车〕顺路送〔某人〕到〔某处〕，放…下车
10  take STH somewhere 把某物送到某处 [transitiveT]TAKE/BRING to take something to a place and leave it there 把〔某物〕送至〔某处〕
11  visit 拜访 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]DLVISIT to visit someone you know, usually without arranging a particular time 顺便造访，临时拜访
12  slope downwards 向下倾斜 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]DNDOWN if a path, land etc drops, it goes down suddenly, forming a steep slope 〔道路、地面等〕急剧向下倾斜
13  end a relationship 结束关系 [transitiveT]RELATIONSHIP informal to suddenly stop having a relationship with someone, especially a romantic relationship 突然终止与〔某人〕的（恋爱）关系，将〔某人〕给甩了
14  until/till you drop TIREDuntil you are too tired to continue doing something 直到累垮
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until/till you drop• She only wanted him to go on dancing till he dropped.• You shop until you drop and then what?• Or they can board one of the famous San Francisco trams to shop till they drop at Ghiradelli Square.• Arlen Specter until he dropped out of the Republican race.• Putting his hand on my head, he looked at his sheep until they dropped their eyes.• It harasses other gulls until they drop their hard-won food and then swoops down to catch it - often in mid-air.• They work until they drop, twenty, thirty hours at a time.• Try having your last meal no later than 5 p. m. Working till I drop will help me sleep.
15  drop a hint SUGGESTto suggest or ask for something in an indirect way, hoping that the person you are talking to will understand what you mean 给暗示
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drop a hint• She kept dropping hints about her birthday, just to make sure none of us forgot about it.• My mother dropped several hints about us wallpapering her sitting room.• I've dropped a few hints about what I want for my birthday.• They managed to see Maeda who dropped hints and told them to be circumspect.• Little by little he dropped hints, but no details.• Occasionally he dropped hints on this matter to Gina.• But sometimes, the trash drops a hint to a waiter.
16  drop somebody a line/note TCN informal to write a short letter to someone 给某人写短信/便条
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drop somebody a line/note• If he can not do so, perhaps he will drop me a line.• Keep a folder on your desk, and during the year drop in notes about the special things you did.• She pulled open a drawer to drop the note in.• The telephone isn't connected yet but you can drop a note in.• Other cities have dropped their line items without allowing departments to keep any of their savings.• Do drop me a line, Mrs Surridge, or anyone else who's interested.• Drop us a line sometime.• After the people have been touched, they drop a £10 note, the usual donation, on the small table.• Just wanted to drop you a note to say break a leg and all those other theatrical cliches.
17  drop dead 
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drop dead• A few months ago, the seven-year-old son of one family we spoke to dropped dead.• If this fails to deter the enemy, the possum promptly drops dead.• In a few minutes the poor beast dropped dead.• She dropped dead; her very flesh had melted away.• Livestock are dropping dead in the fields.• One day he just dropped dead in the street.• They tried to beg, but everyone else was hungry, and they would drop dead in the streets.• McSherry dropped dead of a heart attack in the middle of a baseball game.• One of their neighbors just dropped dead on the tennis court.• It wasn't printed in the end because he'd just dropped dead the day before, in Rochdale Road.• I would not care if I dropped dead tomorrow.
18. somebody’s jaw dropped used to say that someone was very surprised 某人目瞪口呆
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somebody’s jaw dropped• Conley's jaw dropped, and she left without saying anything.
19  drop your eyes/gaze EMBARRASSEDto stop looking at someone and look down, usually because you feel embarrassed or uncomfortable 垂下眼睛/目光〔通常因为尴尬或不自在〕
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drop your eyes/gaze• For no reason at all, she shivered and dropped her gaze.• She looks up at him, holds his gaze for a second or two, then drops her eyes.• They dropped their eyes and pretended not to notice him.• He blessed himself and dropped his eyes as the hearse passed.• She dropped her eyes back to the pile of letters.• I drop my eyes in confusion.• We look at each other, and then, drop our gaze to hide our confusion.• I dropped my eyes to my foot, straightened out the tongue, and stood up.
20  the wind drops the wind stops 风停止
21  drop a bombshell informalSHOCK to suddenly tell someone a shocking piece of news 突然说出惊人的消息
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drop a bombshell• Then, one day in May, Kathleen dropped a bombshell.
22  drop somebody in it informal to say or do something that gets someone else into trouble 给某人捅了娄子，使某人遇到麻烦
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drop somebody in it• Listen, mate, I wouldn't drop you in it.
23  drop $50/£2,000 etc  [transitiveT] informalBMONEY to lose money in a business deal, a game etc 〔做生意、赌博等〕输掉50美元/2,000英镑等
24. drop a catch DSCto fail to catch a ball hit by a batsman in cricket 〔板球比赛中〕没接住〔击球手击来的〕球
25  drop a point DSto lose a point in a sports competition 〔体育比赛中〕失分
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drop a point• After 10 days and three predictable victories they were promoted, thanks to Woking dropping a point.• But if they drop points, Leicester City or Derby County could triumph in a nail-biting finish.
26. be dropping like flies informal if people are dropping like flies, they are getting ill or dying in large numbers 大批病倒；大批死亡
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be dropping like flies• Players from both teams are dropping like flies.• Our kids are dropping like flies.• They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.• Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
27. drop a clanger/brick British EnglishBrEEMBARRASSED to say something embarrassing in a social situation 〔在社交场合〕出言不慎，失言
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drop a clanger/brick• No wonder, perhaps, that Seaman dropped a brick.
28. drop a stitch DLHto let the wool fall off the needle when you are knitting 〔编织时〕漏一针，掉一针
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drop a stitch• Tuck stitch has a tendency to drop stitches and the tuck brushes are there to prevent this.• But I drop stitches, I find.
29. drop anchor TTWto lower a boat’s anchor to the bottom of the sea, a lake etc so that the boat does not float away 落锚，下锚
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drop anchor• While Pottz tacked to and fro energetically seeking out the elusive peak, Richie dropped anchor and contemplated the horizon.• The ship finally dropped anchor at a beautiful isle of the Marquesas.• On June 9,1741, the Centurion dropped anchor at last at Juan Fernandez.• Clayt was forced to drop anchor in open water.• Everybody said that Floyd Johnson probably dropped anchor somewhere to wait to the next day instead of coming in in the fog.• We dropped anchor there, and the fishermen disappeared back into harbour, leaving us to our fate.
30. drop acid informalMDD to swallow LSD (=an illegal drug) 服用迷幻药
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drop acid• There were the heavy rooms for dropping acid or taking mushrooms.
31 drop back (also drop behind) phrasal verbphr v to move more slowly than other people so that they get ahead of you 落后，落在后面
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drop back• Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half.• She half-ran, half-walked, taking a wide curve around the villa and dropping back down towards it on the western side.• Then they dropped back out of sight.• I drop back soundlessly, my lips slackened.
32 drop off phrasal verbphr v 
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drop off• She kept dropping off for a few minutes, before waking with a start.• At around 12.30, she did eventually drop off for an hour or so.• Janir had dropped off to sleep on the living room couch.
dropped off to sleep• Eventually we dropped off to sleep.• Gillian sat in the back and soon dropped off to sleep.• I must have dropped off to sleep.• On the drive back to St Petersburg the girl once again dropped off to sleep.• Mrs Wright had dropped off to sleep again, making a kind of whistling noise through her mouth.• The baby dropped off to sleep in the car.• I had barely dropped off to sleep when I was suddenly awakened b sharp abdominal pains.
33 drop out phrasal verbphr v 
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drop out• He advised young people to "turn on, tune in, and drop out".• He was a dropout and a hippy back in the '60s.• A group of young people dropped out and set up a commune in the middle of the forest.• One third of the city's students drop out before graduation.• He dropped out of art college and joined a band.• She decided to drop out of the rat race because she couldn't stand working 60 hours a week.• While kids in the affluent sixties could afford to drop out, things were very different ten years later.
drop of• Kelly dropped out of college after one semester.• In extreme cases they can drop out of position. with disastrous results.• Don dropped out of school in June, dashing all hope of be-coming a lawyer.• At 16, Williams dropped out of school to sing in nightclubs and the flourishing dance scene at South Side social clubs.• Many of them drop out of school, too exhausted to study.• You want to drop out of school?• Then, too, his thinking had hardly dropped out of the blue.• In 1988, soon after losing the Illinois primary to George Bush, Dole dropped out of the race.• The survey was conducted March 2-3 before Alexander and Lugar dropped out of the race.
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 7: to stop doing something, discussing something, or continuing with something
drop + NOUN
drop the charges/a case (=stop the legal process of trying to prove someone is guilty)
Both men have been released and the charges have been dropped.
drop everything (=completely stop everything you are doing)
When my mother was sick, I just dropped everything and flew to be with her in Seattle.
drop the idea
The project was going to be too expensive so the idea was dropped.
drop a plan
The company has dropped its plan to build a hotel on the site.
drop a scheme/program etc
Some banks have dropped their student loan scheme.
drop a subject (=stop studying it at school or university)
Students may choose to drop a subject in their second year.
drop the pretence (=stop pretending)
He has finally dropped the pretence that he’s innocent.
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drop• Minnesota Educational Computing Corp., which sells educational software, dropped 15 percent, or 3, to 17.• I have to drop 25 pounds to fit in the costume.• Lily dropped a cube of sugar into her champagne and they clinked glasses, still laughing.• He dropped a potential game-winning touchdown pass in the end zone on fourth down against Green Bay with 11 seconds left.• Marian has dropped all her old friends since she started college.• Allied planes began dropping bombs at midnight Tuesday.• I'm too busy to just drop everything and go out for the day.• I think I may drop French next year and concentrate on my other languages.• As soon as she saw him she dropped her suitcases and ran towards him.• Barbara dropped her voice so Nelson wouldn't hear.• He couldn't run fast enough, so the coach dropped him.• A buyer might say that he is willing to buy if the seller drops his price by £100.• Clarisa reclaimed him an hour later as the sun dropped into the ocean.• I don't think this article will be of interest to our readers. Let's drop it.• Getz dropped McCallum with a right blow to the jaw.• I nearly dropped my glass on the floor when they said I'd won.• I dropped my sunglasses and they broke.• I need to drop off these papers at Bob's.• If you take four classes you can drop one later if you need to.• Studies had shown that the more assessment tests a student failed, the likelier that student was to drop out.• Because of strong opposition, the government has dropped plans to increase taxes on fuel.• Be careful not to drop that bowl, it's very valuable.• Margaret dropped the letters onto her desk.• Her hands shake constantly and she keeps dropping things.• A few pine cones had already dropped to the ground.• I'll drop you at the corner, okay?
drop from/off• Both rates dropped from 1994 levels.• His approval rating dropped from a high of about 70 percent, but still stands at around 60 percent.• Their height drops off only linearly with distance.• He plays in a definite way, dropping off scrums into a defensive pocket.• These patients were dropped from the study but were allowed to re-enter eight weeks later.• We dropped off the wounded at 4 a. m., but the kid stayed with us.• Singer wins 20 but drops off to seven and seven for the Angels.• However, the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum.
dropped ... head• Laura sobbed, and dropped her head.• He swung himself to sit on the edge of the bed, and dropped his head in his hands.• He dropped his head into his hands.• I sat and dropped my head into my hands.• Wally dropped his head into my lap and began nuzzling my crotch.• Barnabas dropped his head on his front paws.• There was certainly something different about this one, she thought dreamily, and dropped her head on his shoulder again.
drop suddenly/sharply/dramatically• After three decades of promotion, the Pap test is largely the reason why cervical cancer deaths have dropped sharply.• As in Iowa, New Hampshire had recovered from a 1992 recession and had seen unemployment drop sharply.• But when a manganese plant south of the city closed, those levels dropped dramatically.• Her opinion of Benedict Beckenham dropped sharply.• The number of people in the catchment area of the resource centre who now seek residential care has dropped dramatically.• Their balance of payments deficits have been alarmingly large, and their currencies have dropped sharply, aggravating their inflationary problems.• Now the rate of new infections drops dramatically along a mathematical curve almost the opposite of the one it initially rose upon.
dropped ... speed• If you want a person to be dropped I suggest Speed.• Shaken, Fabio dropped his speed and began to look for a place to stop.
drop everything• I can't just drop everything.• You have to drop everything and attend to it.• When she came home he dropped everything and everybody, including me, and ran to her.• There was no point in dropping everything and quitting.• For her, he dropped everything - including his pants.• You pop up out of the blue and expect me to drop everything, just like that.• It got broken when I dropped everything last night.• March 17 is an official holiday when the whole island drops everything to tip their pints and dance to fife and drum.
let it drop• She didn't understand, so I let it drop.• Sev eral times he raised his hand to knock, but each time he let it drop.• Tommy shot the bolts on the tailgate and let it drop.• Then she let it drop again.• They let it drop for a while.• The Union filed a grievances and then, after the first step, let it drop, indifferently, from its beak.• That's the only explanation for it, but you try proving it ... Maybe you should let it drop, love.• I wouldn't have heard it except that Mitch let it drop one day when he was angry.
drop in (on somebody)• You can find freshwater ones in most streams simply by dropping in a piece of raw meat or liver.• The one-time gain reflected a drop in financing costs after the conversion of 836 million francs in convertible bonds.• Motorola blamed lagging sales and lower prices for wireless phones for an unexpected drop in fourth-quarter earnings.• The decline was in part due to a sharp drop in gasoline prices.• Far better to await a further sharp drop in mortgage rates into the high or even middling single digits.• The method was harsh, but brought a 17 percent drop in retail prices and an end to formal rationing.• You are not looking for a fast drop in weight.
drop away• On either score, actual artists and their intentions somehow dropped away.• The trouble and ache of the last few minutes circled the center of his feeling and then dropped away.• This is a positive procedure, and when the healing has taken place the scab drops away.• The Government buildings along the Embankment drop away behind us, and here I am in another world, another life.• Memory of Sweet Home dropped away from the eyes of the man she was being girlish for.• Indeed, as the stereotypes dropped away, humans astonished them-selves with the ranges of behavior they could thrive within.• In the following year membership reached a peak, before dropping away in 1938 and 1939.• By 1880, however it had dropped away to under 200,000 tons.
Related topics: Drink, Nature
drop2 ●●● S2 W3 noun  
1  liquid 液体 [countableC]LIQUID a very small amount of liquid that falls in a round shape 〔液体的〕滴
2  small amount 少量 [usually singular] informal
3  reduction 减少 [singular]LESS a reduction in the amount, level, or number of something, especially a large or sudden one 下跌，下降，减少 SYN fall
4  distance to ground 至地面的距离 [singular]DNDISTANCE a distance from a higher point down to the ground or to a lower point 落差，落下的距离
5  at the drop of a hat IMMEDIATELYimmediately and without pausing to think about what you are going to do 立即，不假思索，毫不迟疑
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at the drop of a hat• He's willing to organize anything guests want at the drop of a hat.
6  delivery 运,送 [countableC]TTA an act of delivering something somewhere, for example by dropping it from a plane 运货；空投 SYN delivery
7. lemon/fruit/chocolate etc drop DFFa sweet that tastes of lemon etc 柠檬/水果/巧克力等味的糖果
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lemon/fruit/chocolate etc drop• Bob had a brown paper poke in his hand from which he was eating magic mushrooms as if they were lemon drops.
8  a drop in the ocean British EnglishBrE, a drop in the bucket American EnglishAmESMALL a very small amount of something compared to what is needed or wanted 沧海一粟，杯水车薪
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a drop in the ocean• Third World debt is so massive that recent pledges to reduce or forgive it are just a drop in the bucket.• The United States pledge of $100 million to the rainforest fund is a drop in the ocean.• With 2m men and women in uniform, a 60,000-strong force is just a drop in the ocean.
9. eye/ear etc drops MDa type of medicine that you put in your eye, ear etc, one drop at a time 滴眼液/滴耳液等
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eye/ear etc drops• They also have literature on the correct use of things such as eye drops and inhalers.• Both eye irritation and redness are helped with lubricating eye drops and eye ointments.• That was the other thing, it took me a long fight to get my eye drops.• Sterile eye drops can be purchased for this purpose.• This has distinct advantages over using eye drops.• And remember - if you're using eye drops for your hay fever, leave your contact lenses out.
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drop• Despite the air drops of food and tents, the refugees continue to suffer.• Big drops of rain slid down the window pane.• Unfortunately, the talent level took a definite drop by the late-1980s.• Then for every drop of oil that stuck to the chopstick a drop of water remained in the bottle.• Add a few drops of vanilla essence, the egg white and half the butter.• She applied a few drops of perfume behind her ears and smiled at her reflection in the mirror.• It's a twenty-five-foot drop from this cliff.• In fact, each individual drop of water is describing a circular motion which takes it nowhere overall.• Worrell had achieved any captain's dream of knowing that his players would give their last drop of sweat just for him.• It was the worst one-day stock market drop since the Great Crash of 1929.• Multiply the number of widths by the number of pattern repeats per drop to give the total number of pattern repeats required.• There was a sudden drop in the plane's altitude.• Maggie slid from the saddle and held the reins, her eyes on the drop to the lake.
drop of• a tear drop• The glass in the kitchen still had a drop of milk in it.• Big drops of rain splashed on the sidewalk.
a sharp/dramatic/marked drop in something• Cuts in salaries, bonuses and overtime payments have reduced many family-incomes and caused a sharp drop in consumer spending.• The announcement prompted a sharp drop in the share price, along with the departure of one Uni-Invest board member.• One reason: a sharp drop in the number of undergraduate students choosing economics as a major.• Guest houses reported a sharp drop in visitors on the popular route following the attack.• The Socialists suffered a sharp drop in votes and seats.• Could these factors contribute to a dramatic drop in the self-esteem of schoolgirls?• The decline was in part due to a sharp drop in gasoline prices.• Last year, a sharp drop in interest rates boosted the value of a 30-year Treasury bond by more than 30 percent.
sheer ... drop• He'd had a short walk after the service and every path seemed to end in a cliff or a sheer drop.• There is a wind-blown cornice of about one and a half metres overhanging a sheer drop of about eight metres.• There was a sheer drop, half the height of a man, down to the water's surface.• They parked and walked to the cape where there was a terrifying sheer drop to the sea.• The fourth side of the clearing was sheer cliff drop, attended by a barrier of split rails.• The cliff was sheer, dropping down to secret rocky coves below them with the sea gently lapping white sand.
From Longman Business Dictionary
dropdrop1 /drɒpdrɑːp/ verb (dropped, dropping)
1[intransitiveI] to fall to a lower level or amount
drop to/from
Second quarter earnings this year dropped to $157 million from $182 million.
Stock prices dropped sharply today.
The dollar dropped against the Japanese yen today.
Demand has dropped by 7%.
2[transitiveT] to stop doing or planning something
Plans to expand the business have been quietly dropped.
She was persuaded to drop the harassment lawsuit.
3[transitiveT] informal to lose money in business, a game etc
He dropped £1000 on the stockmarket.
4[transitiveT]COMPUTING to place words, a picture etc into a particular computer document with the mouse
Either drag and drop the page into a message or choose Send Page from under the File menu.
→ drop off
dropdrop2 noun [countableC usually singular]
if there is a drop in the amount, level, or number of something, it goes down or becomes less
Yesterday saw a sharp drop in stock prices.
drop in
Business is expecting a drop in interest rates later this year.
The club has suffered a dramatic drop in profits.
The first quarter total shows a drop from the same quarter last year.
→ see also leaflet drop, mail drop
Origin drop1
Old English droppian
 drop2
Old English dropa
drop1 verb
→10-19
→20-33

→n COLLOCATIONS1drop2 noun
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