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stagnation Finance Definition
A period of several years of near zero or negative economic growth, measured in gross domestic product (GDP).
stagnation Quotes

We now have the worst of both worldsönot just inflation on the one side or stagnation on the other, but both of them together.We have a sort of stagflation situation.

—MacLennan, Hugh

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel: they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, preciselyas men would suffer†it is thoughtless to condem them, or laugh at them, if they seek to domorethancustomhas pronounced necessary for their sex.

—Bronte«  , Charlotte