Meaning of Downside | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous.
2. A number of places in England:
3. A southern suburb of Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL0320).
4. A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc.
5. A suburb of Eastbourne, East Sussex (OS grid ref TV5999).
6. A hamlet in Chilcompton parish, Somerset, previously in Mendip district, near Downside Abbey and Downside School (OS grid ref ST6450).
7. The side of something that is at the bottom, or that is intended to face downward.
8. A small village in Shepton Mallet parish, Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6244).
9. A small village in Backwell parish and Wrington parish, North Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4966).
10. A small village in Elmbridge borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ1158).
11. A rural community of the City of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

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Examples

“The downside of obtaining a higher rank is that far more work is expected.”

“Hazardous and nuclear waste came to represent the downside of industrial prosperity.”

“The downside of being snaggle-toothed is that you whistle through them and people can't understand what you're talking about.”

“The downside of using acid gas for enhanced oil recovery is that the incremental produced oil contains H₂S and has to be desulphurized.”

“The strategy is used both to increase the return on the underlying stock and to provide a limited amount of downside protection.”

“I could go all the way back to 1982 and I'm sure the effects of the expiration will be even more exacerbated on the downside of the spread.”

“In Table 3, the options are shown for the same client who will accept a one in ten chance of breaching the downside of -3% in any one year.”

“Alienation: A stage on the downside of the passage wherein the holdfast and the antihero take actions which bring about a disintegration of personality.”

“An apparatus for heat-treating a flowing fluid, comprising a fluid source; a heat exchange unit provided with a regenerative section, the latter having an upside through which such fluid is caused to flow and a downside through which such fluid is caused to flow subsequent to being heated, said upside and downside being separated from one another by a heat-conductive wall, […]”

“The buildings on the downside of the station were demolished and new premises of modern design constructed on the new platform.”

“Notice in Figure 19.2 that polarities naturally and predictably "flow" (arrows represent a plot of changes in results) from the downside of pole L toward the upside of pole R; the into the downside of pole R; then toward the upside of the first, pole L; and finally back to the downside of L, where it all began.”

“Moreover, the flow chugging was observed at the downside of the plate.”

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