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drip-feed

drip-feed
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [drip feed]
    • /drɪp fid/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [drip feed]
    • /drɪp fid/

Definitions of drip-feed word

  • noun drip-feed intravenous feeding. 1
  • verb drip-feed If you drip-feed money into something, you pay the money a little at a time rather than paying it all at once. 0
  • verb drip-feed to administer a solution to (someone) by means of a drip-feed 0
  • verb drip-feed to supply (information) constantly but in small amounts 0
  • verb drip-feed to fund (a new company) in stages rather than by injecting a large sum at its inception 0
  • noun drip-feed a constant supply of small amounts of information 0

Information block about the term

Origin of drip-feed

First appearance:

before 1905
One of the 15% newest English words
1905-10, for earlier sense

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Drip-feed

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

drip-feed popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 39% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 53% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

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