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soft landing
noun
- a slowing down of economic growth at a manageable rate relative to inflation and unemployment.
soft landing
noun
- a landing by a spacecraft on the moon or a planet at a sufficiently low velocity for the equipment or occupants to remain unharmed
- a decrease in demand that does not result in a country's economy falling into recession
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of soft landing1
Example Sentences
Trump did so on Thursday but gave Waltz a soft landing, announcing that he would nominate him to serve as ambassador to the United Nations.
The capsule will return to Earth with a parachute-assisted soft landing, while the rocket booster will land itself around two miles away from the launch site.
No rush, never pushy, it can wait all day, and with an aroma that envelops me like a long, heartfelt embrace delivered from someone I have missed and truly adore, it is a soft landing at the end of the day.
For a real-news headline, here’s the Wall Street Journal late Monday, after the market slide Trump sparked: “Wall Street Fears Trump Will Wreck the Soft Landing.”
"For women at other levels of office, when they lose an election, sometimes options are not as available to them compared to men, who get a soft landing at a law firm or insurance business, and it gives them a place to take a beat, make some money and then make decisions about what's next," said Debbie Walsh, director for the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
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