English Explanatory Dictionary

downward drift

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon of people with mental illness moving ever downward along the social and economic scale after they reach adulthood and live independently.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see downward, drift.

Word forms

downward drift
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