slack
/slæk/ noun C2- A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
Plural slacks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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They were paying a pound a day each—fourteen pounds a week, and this is the slack season.
“He said that we were slack about such matters—that it would be easy for a traitor to get the plans.”
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