Definitions for stagnation

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stagnation stag·na·tion

Spelling: [stag-ney-shuh n]

IPA: /stægˈneɪ ʃən/

Stagnation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 412 anagrams from letters in stagnation (aaginnostt).

Definitions for stagnation

noun

1. the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow:
2. a foulness or staleness, as one emanating from a standing pool of water.
3. a failure to develop, progress, or advance:
4. the state or quality of being or feeling sluggish and dull:

Origin of stagnation

stagn(ate) + -ation

Examples for stagnation

The MFA spokesman, Mark Regev, said that “if the Arab initiative is take it or leave it, that will be a recipe for stagnation.”

Thus the stagnation of the lower orders could easily be understood.

Startups will abandon any potentially “data-intensive” innovation to big players—a recipe for stagnation.

Others face career uncertainty and stagnation as promotion rates continue to drop for both enlisted and officers.

True, we have come far from the days of stagnation and despair.

Only her heart lived; lived with the passive life of stagnation.

He looked to Barbara like an undertaker who mourned the stagnation of trade.

First, they need to give much more serious attention to the stagnation of blue collar wages.

My hope is for the two to fail short term in their unity quest for stagnation.

The inventor of words being a patron of the flux, was a great enemy to stagnation.