trickle

trickle
trickle trick‧le [ˈtrɪkl] verb [intransitive]
to move somewhere slowly and in very small numbers or amounts:

• Only four or five customers had trickled in by 11:30.

• Details of the programs have trickled out over the past weeks, but haven't been widely publicized.

— trickle noun [singular] :

• Trading activity slowed to a trickle as traders waited for a sign that war could be avoided.

trickle down phrasal verb [intransitive] ECONOMICS
if something trickles down from one group to another, the people in the lower group start to feel the effects of something that has been done to the higher one:

• As Mexico made the painful conversion to a market economy, less wealth trickled down from the bosses to the masses.

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trickle UK US /ˈtrɪkl/ verb [I]
► to arrive or move somewhere slowly or gradually: trickle back »

Foreign capital has been trickling back, as investors seek higher returns than they can find at home.

 trickle in »

Customers trickled in throughout the afternoon.

 trickle out »

Details have begun to trickle out since the deal was struck Monday night.

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trickle UK US /ˈtrɪkl/ noun [C, usually singular]
► a very small number of people or things: a slow/steady trickle of sth »

Throughout the day there was a steady trickle of customers.

 be reduced/dwindle/slow to a trickle »

Trading has slowed to a trickle.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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  • trickle — (v.) late 14c., possibly an aphetic variant of stricklen to trickle, a frequentative form of striken to flow, move (see STRIKE (Cf. strike)). Related: Trickled; trickling. The noun is 1570s, from the verb. Trickle down as an adjectival phrase in… …   Etymology dictionary

  • trickle — ► VERB 1) (of a liquid) flow in a small stream. 2) (trickle down) (of wealth) gradually benefit the poorest as a result of the increasing wealth of the richest. 3) come or go slowly or gradually. ► NOUN 1) a small flow of liquid. 2) a small group …   English terms dictionary

  • trickle — [trik′əl] vi. trickled, trickling [ME triklen < ?] 1. to flow slowly in a thin stream or fall in drops 2. to move, come, go, etc. little by little [the crowd trickled away] vt. to cause to trickle n. 1. the act of trickling …   English World dictionary

  • Trickle — Tric kle (tr[i^]k k l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trickled} (tr[i^]k k ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Trickling} (tr[i^]k kl[i^]ng).] [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. str[imac]can. See {Strike}, v. t.] To flow in a small,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Trickle — Tric kle, n. The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip. Streams that . . . are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud. James Bryce. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • trickle — index distill, exude, paucity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • trickle — [v] run out crawl, creep, distill, dribble, drip, drop, exude, flow, issue, leak, ooze, percolate, seep, stream, trill, weep; concepts 146,179 Ant. flow …   New thesaurus

  • Trickle Up — [http://www.trickleup.org Trickle Up] is a nonprofit international development organization that empowers people living on less than $1 a day to take their first steps out of poverty. Founded in 1979 by Glenn Leet and Mildred Robbins Leet,… …   Wikipedia

  • trickle — trick|le1 [ˈtrıkəl] v [I always + adverb/preposition] [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Perhaps from the sound] 1.) if liquid trickles somewhere, it flows slowly in drops or in a thin stream trickle down/into/out ▪ The tears trickled down her cheeks. 2.) …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • trickle — trick|le1 [ trıkl ] verb intransitive 1. ) if a liquid or a substance such as sand trickles somewhere, a small amount of it flows there slowly: A solitary tear trickled down his cheek. We let the sand trickle between our toes. 2. ) if people or… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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