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levelling off

levelling off is the present participle and gerund of level off.

Meaning of level off

Verb

level off (third-person singular simple present levels off, present participle (US) leveling off or (UK) levelling off, simple past and past participle (US) leveled off or (UK) levelled off)

  1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see level, off.
    • I poured some flour into the scoop and levelled it off with a knife.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To get to a stable level; to cease climbing, descending, or oscillating.
    • Will the exponential growth in TV rights income at home and abroad that has fuelled the endless inflation of the Premier League’s high-octane balloon ever level off?2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London

Questions about levelling off

What is levelling off the present participle and gerund of?
Levelling off is the present participle and gerund of level off.

Words near levelling off in the dictionary

  1. levellers
  2. levelless
  3. levellest
  4. levelling
  5. levelling down
  6. levelling off
  7. levelling out
  8. levelling staff
  9. levelling staffs
  10. levelling staves
  11. levelling to the ground

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Adapted from Wiktionary: levelling off (page history and authors); level off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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