Associations to the word «Drawdown»

Wiktionary

DRAWDOWN, noun. The act of reduction or depletion.
DRAWDOWN, noun. The result of reduction or depletion.
DRAWDOWN, noun. A change in hydraulic head in a well or other body of water.
DRAWDOWN, noun. (economics) A measure of the decline from a historical peak in some variable, typically the cumulative profit or total open equity of a financial trading strategy.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne