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downside

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Compound of down +‎ side.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdaʊnˌsaɪd/
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downside (plural downsides)

  1. A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous.
    The downside of obtaining a higher rank is that far more work is expected.
    • 1998, Hal Rothman, Gerald W. Nash, Richard W. Etulain, The Greening of a Nation?:, page 136:
      Hazardous and nuclear waste came to represent the downside of industrial prosperity.
    • 2000, Zvonimir Balog, Nice Manners, Or, How Can I Avoid Growing Up to be a Twit, page 200:
      The downside of being snaggle-toothed is that you whistle through them and people can't understand what you're talking about.
    • 2005, Edward S. Rubin, Greenhouse Gas Control TechnologiesGreenhouse Gas Control Technologies, page 456:
      The downside of using acid gas for enhanced oil recovery is that the incremental produced oil contains H2S and has to be desulphurized.
  2. A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc.
    • 1987, Information Circular:
      The strategy is used both to increase the return on the underlying stock and to provide a limited amount of downside protection.
    • 1994, The Review of Futures Markets - Volume 13, Issues 1-2, page 112:
      I could go all the way back to 1982 and I'm sure the effects of the expiration will be even more exacerbated on the downside of the spread.
    • 2002, The Professional Investor, page 17:
      In Table 3, the options are shown for the same client who will accept a one in ten chance of breaching the downside of -3% in any one year.
    • 2006, James Bonnet, Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for Writers and Filmmakers:
      Alienation: A stage on the downside of the passage wherein the holdfast and the antihero take actions which bring about a disintegration of personality.
  3. The side of something that is at the bottom, or that is intended to face downward.
    • 1960, Lloyd T. Gustafson, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 165:
      An apparatus for heat-treating a flowing fluid, comprising a fluid source; a heat exchange unit provided with a regenerative section, the latter having an upside through which such fluid is caused to flow and a downside through which such fluid is caused to flow subsequent to being heated, said upside and downside being separated from one another by a heat-conductive wall, […]
    • 1962, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological, page 144:
      The buildings on the downside of the station were demolished and new premises of modern design constructed on the new platform.
    • 1999, Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, Leading and Managing in Nursing, page 330:
      Notice in Figure 19.2 that polarities naturally and predictably "flow" (arrows represent a plot of changes in results) from the downside of pole L toward the upside of pole R; the into the downside of pole R; then toward the upside of the first, pole L; and finally back to the downside of L, where it all began.
    • 2003, Proceedings of the 2003 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, page 223:
      Moreover, the flow chugging was observed at the downside of the plate.

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