drawdowns

Noun

drawdown (countable and uncountable, plural drawdowns)

1. The act of reduction or depletion (including through withdrawal or utilization).
   • The government initiated a drawdown of forces in the border region.
   1. (US) The withdrawal of weapons, ammunition and other supplies from US stocks, and provision of it to another nation.
      • The presidential drawdown authority, a US foreign policy tool, allows for the speedy delivery of DoD stocks to foreign countries in crisis.2023 December 27, “US to provide Ukraine with up to $250m in arms and equipment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
   2. A lowering in water level, as in a well or a reservoir.
      • From June to October 1992, an intensive reconnaissance survey of cultural resources exposed by a drawdown in lake elevation was conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers1995, John H. Dendy, Intensive Archeological Reconnaissance Survey of Newly Exposed Shoreline Resulting from the Drawdown of Harlan County Lake, Harlan County, Nebraska
2. The result of reduction, utilization, or depletion.
3. (A measure of) the decline from a historical peak in some economic or financial variable.
4. The process of a bank releasing previously agreed loan amount to the borrower, hence making it available for them to use.

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