DECLINE

Decline

Decline involves change over time, for example: from previously efficient to inefficient organizational functioning, from previously rational to non-rational organizational and individual decision-making, from previously law-abiding to law-violating organizational and individual behavior, from previously virtuous to iniquitous individual moral behavior

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decline

Noun

  1. Downward movement, fall.
  2. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
  3. A weakening.
  4. A reduction or diminution of activity.

Verb

  1. To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
  2. To become weaker or worse.
  3. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
  4. To cause to decrease or diminish.
  5. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
    a line that declines from straightness
    conduct that declines from sound morals
  6. To refuse, forbear.
  7. To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
  8. To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.


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