English-French translation for "plummeting"

plummeting {adv.} (also: straight down, in the nick of time, steeply, precipitously)

to plummet [plummeted|plummeted] {vb} (also: to go into a nose-dive, to nose-dive)

to plummet [plummeted|plummeted] {vb}

The standard of living is plummeting.

Plummeting autonomous capital inflows

The turnout has been plummeting in the last 30 years.

Because of agricultural subsidy policies, however, cotton prices had been plummeting.

Senator Tardif: Canada's world reputation for protection of human rights is plummeting.

Because of AIDS alone, life expectancy in some African nations is plummeting by as much as 30 years.

The rating appears to be plummeting earthwards, very much like the Sea King helicopters.

With output plummeting, the number of layoffs has increased markedly in the region.

However, statements made in certain quarters have continued to describe the situation as plummeting into further deterioration.

By contrast, the recovery of investment continued in Colombia, after plummeting in 1999, but has yet to regain its 1998 level.

Political turmoil has produced plummeting economic indicators, which in turn has led to a deteriorating security situation.

Mr. Speaker, plummeting prices for grains and hogs are causing great hardships for many farmers and their families.

Clearly, the influx of timber onto the market will send prices plummeting and so further damage the industry's economic operators.

Today Doug Young, his former cabinet minister, chaired a whole conference on plummeting Canadian productivity.

There were growing concerns about the volatility of exchange rates, plummeting share prices and unstable oil prices.

The plummeting cost of IT makes it less capital-intensive and more affordable to less affluent societies.

As a result, participation by third world countries in international trade had dropped below its 1980 level. Meanwhile, commodity prices were plummeting.

As a result of the severe financial crisis, economic growth in developing countries was plummeting, with per capita income set to fall in more than 50 of those countries.

… I think we should be every bit as worried about the rate at which fertility is plummeting, as we would be were the same trend suddenly to appear amongst the animal population.”

And that is not counting the plummeting euro and the explosion in the price of a barrel of crude oil, factors not anticipated in the past oracular pronouncements by self-styled experts on Europe.