plateau
pla toh
- n a relatively flat highland
- But felonies by kids had exploded over the previous 10 years, a legacy of the crack trade and armed gangs, so the recent decline is still a dip in a high plateau.
- Stocks fell off what Irving Fisher had called a "permanently high plateau" in October 1929 and didn't return until that level until 1954.
- He demanded that the Chinese quit the plateau and ordered his own army to occupy it.