Stagnation

(hydrology) The condition of a body of water unstirred by a current or wave. The condition of a glacier that has stopped flowing.

A period of little or no growth in the economy. Economic growth of less than 2-3% is considered stagnation. Sometimes used to describe low trading volume or inactive trading in securities.

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A good example of stagnation was the U.S. economy in the 1970s.

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Economics: period of no or slow economic growth or of economic decline, in real (inflation-adjusted) terms. Economic growth of 3% or less per year-as was the case in the late 1970s, measured according to increases in the U.S. Gross national product-generally is taken to constitute stagnation.

Securities: period of low volume and inactivetrading.

noun

A lack of action or activity: idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertness, inoperativeness. See action/inaction.

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Stagnation may refer to one of the following

• Economic stagnation, slow or no economic growth
• Brezhnev stagnation, a period of economic stagnation in Soviet Union
• Stagnation in fluid dynamics, see "Stagnation point"
• Water stagnation
• Air stagnation

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