One who declines. / (finance) A company's stock which is falling in price.

plural of decliner

(intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop. / (intransitive) To become weaker or worse. / (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

Downward movement, fall. / A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road. / A weakening. / A reduction or diminution of activity. / The act of declining or refusing something.

simple past tense and past participle of decline

plural of decline

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decline

A pessimistic belief that things are in decline.

(heraldry) Having the tail hanging down.

An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane. / (obsolete) A dissenter.