slack

slack
slack [slæk]
1. adjective
   a. [rope] détendu ; [knot] desserré ; [hold] faible
   b. ( = not busy) [time, season, month] creux ; [market] déprimé
• business is slack this week les affaires marchent au ralenti cette semaine
   c. ( = lax) [discipline, security] relâché ; [student, worker] peu sérieux
• to be slack about one's work manquer de sérieux dans son travail
2. noun
(in rope) mou m ; (in cable) ballant m
• to take up the slack in a rope tendre une corde
• to cut sb some slack (US) faciliter les choses à qn
3. plural noun
slacks pantalon m
4. intransitive verb
(inf) ne pas travailler comme il le faudrait
* * *
[slæk] 1.
noun
1) lit (in rope, cable) mou m

to take up the slack in a rope — tendre une corde

to take up the slack — fig (take over) prendre le relais

2) fig (in schedule etc) marge f
3) (coal) poussier m
2.
slacks plural noun pantalon m

a pair of slacks — un pantalon

3.
adjective
1) (careless) [worker] peu consciencieux/-ieuse; [management] négligent; [student] peu appliqué; [work] peu soigné

to be slack about doing — négliger de faire

to get slack — [worker, discipline, surveillance] se relâcher

2) (not busy) [period] creux/creuse (after n); [demand, sales] faible

business is slack — les affaires tournent au ralenti

3) (loose, limp) détendu

to go slack — se détendre

4.
intransitive verb [worker] se relâcher dans son travail
Phrasal Verbs:

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