to nosedive

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To dive down in a steep angle
To perform a rapid fall in price or value
If something such as someone's reputation or career nosedives, it suddenly gets much worse. Since the US invasion the president's reputation has nosedived. Nosedive is also a noun. He told the tribunal his career had `taken a nosedive' since his dismissal last year
A headfirst fall or jump
If prices, profits, or exchange rates nosedive, they suddenly fall by a large amount. The value of other shares nosedived by £2.6 billion. = plummet Nosedive is also a noun. The bank yesterday revealed a 30 per cent nosedive in profits
{i} steep dive of an airplane; sharp decline in price
A rapid fall in price or value
plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft
{f} dive; fall; skydive; decrease drastically
to nosedive
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