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• n  an occurrence of control or strength weakening
  the slackening of the wind
• v  become slow or slower
• v  make less active or fast
• v  become looser or slack
• v  make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

• Although slackening demand has pushed wholesale prices of whale meat down 10% to 30% over the past year alone, it remains costly, at a wholesale rate that ranges between $3.
• There is a benign explanation for Wikipedia's slackening pace: the site has simply hit the natural limit of knowledge expansion.
• As Australia's great mining boom deflated due to slackening demand from China and the global recession, the region around Cockburn saw unemployment go from 2.

• relaxation
• loosening
• slow
• slow down
• slow up
• slack
• slacken
• slack up
• relax
• remit

News & Articles

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• Samsung CEO speaks: S4 sales strong, Apple patent battles to continue
  In a rare public statement aimed at reducing the financial effect of bad analyst reports, the CEO of Samsung Electronics denied reports from JPMorgan predicting a slackening of Galaxy S4 sales triggering a selloff of the company's stock. Further remarks by the CEO at the same event affirmed the company's commitment to the ongoing patent battles with Apple....        
  June 13, 2013 - MacNN
• Export slowdown threatens emerging Asia's credit-fuelled boom
  By Stuart Grudgings KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A deepening slump in exports is sending tremors through Asia, threatening to undermine some booming emerging economies that have surged ahead in recent years on a heady combination of easy credit, buoyant consumer demand and strong domestic investment. Export growth throughout Asia has sagged in recent months, hit by slackening demand from the United ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• In China, more signs of slowing growth
  After weathering the global financial crisis better than any other large economy, China is now showing signs of slackening growth despite heavy lending from state-owned banks and extensive government investment programs.        
  June 10, 2013 - Boston Globe

Quotes

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• Robert Gates in BusinessWeek
  No one, be they adversaries or friends or especially our troops, should misinterpret this personnel change as a slackening of this government's commitment to the mission in Afghanistan,Gates said.
• Andrew Gould in Forbes
  We see no slackening in activity before 2010,unless the economy sours, Gould said.
• Barack Obama in Africasia
  You will not see, under my presidency, any slackening in commitment to Israel's security,Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic magazine online.