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noun

slack

CEFR C1

looseness in a rope or line; spare room or capacity not being used

In a sentence

Six example sentences with slack, each labelled with its topic.

  • Sailors on the old clipper ships hauled in the slack before every turn, since a loose line could snap taut and sweep the deck.

    History

  • Factories ran with so little slack that one late shipment of bolts idled the assembly line for two full days.

    Economics

  • Rangers left some slack in the tracking collar so the young wolf's neck could grow through the summer without chafing.

    Environment

  • Take up the slack in the resistance band before you start, or the first inch of every rep does nothing.

    Fitness

  • The project plan had no slack, so one late delivery pushed the launch by a full month.

    Business

  • The servers ran with plenty of slack, so the holiday traffic spike never pushed them past half their capacity.

    Technology

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