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slack <a slack; slacks> N

slack ADJ

slack FIN
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slack ADJ

slack N

slack VB

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budget slack ECON

free slack N COMPUT

slack adjuster AUTO

slack coal MIN

slack fit ARCHIT

slack season ECON

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Organizational slack occurs when firms opt to employ more resources than are needed to produce a given level of output.
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It was slacking off as much as it could when it came through there.
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Moving in any such direction is said to remove slack between the candidate solution and one or more constraints.
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Meanwhile, the young players developed by the team's farm system could not pick up the slack.
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The left hand operates on a separate brain, taking up slack line as it becomes available, while always preserving a little slack.
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Most originals used a sizing system considerably smaller than today's comparable sizes, with only 2-4 in of slack over the tagged chest size.
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As the tide rises again there is a period of slack water when the levels are the same on either side.
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Storing small files on a filesystem with large clusters will therefore waste disk space; such wasted disk space is called slack space.
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In his opinion, this second text is taut where the first one is slack, precise where the first is woolly.
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That is, the dual vector is minimized in order to remove slack between the candidate positions of the constraints and the actual optimum.
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