Take up the slack
take up the slack (verb) -
a. providing something that is no longer being provided by others
b. utilizing spare capacity
take up the slack as the economy slows
some work to take up the slack
planners want X to take the slack
take up the slack between jobs
they are taking up the slack created by
find enough work to take up the slack
take up the slack in the meantime
take up the slack after staff leaves
export market takes up the slack
increasing production to take up the slack
raise enough money to take up the slack
others are ready to take up the slack
Example sentences:
* "After the bus company went bankrupt last month, local bus companies stepped in and took up the slack on many of the shorter routes."
* "The export market has not taken up the slack, so layoffs are coming thick and fast."
* "We are just completing two major jobs and our work with Conoco's could take up the slack in the meantime."
* "His office took up the slack after high level staff left the firm, but his staff had to commute for an extra hour everyday to get there."
* "Utah's economic planners want aerospace, bio-medical and computing firms to take up the slack."
* "Banks will not take up the slack as the economy slows."
* "But in the bad times the market for second and retirement homes disappeared, and the local market can't take up the slack."
* "You gotta take up the slack You gotta clean up your act ..."
* "Restructuring of the Atomic Energy Authority would have to be done, but there was concern whether it would be able to find enough non-nuclear work to take up the slack."
* "He was told he could take up the slack as the company had fully expected other investors who had been too slow to meet the deadline to come in."
* "As the money they were able to raise has dwindled, the opera has scrambled with great success after private money but even so has not been able to raise enough to take up the slack."
* "The abrupt cessation of his trading cannot but have caused more or less severe dislocation until others were ready to take up the slack."
* As a result of the Housing Act 1988 and the introduction of shorthold tenancies, we are witnessing rapid growth in the number of shorthold and assured tenancies being let by private landlords --; so much so, that at last they are taking up the slack created by the number of secure tenancies.
