ˈfree fall , free-fall noun [singular, uncountable]

1. the movement of someone or something through the air without engine power, for example before a parachute opens after someone has jumped out of a plane
in/into free fall
The spacecraft is now in free fall towards the Earth.

2. a very fast and uncontrolled fall in the value of something:
the free-fall in housing prices
in/into free fall
The economy is in free fall.
—free-falling adjective

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