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soft landing

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soft landing [′sȯft ′land·iŋ]
(aerospace engineering)
The act of landing on the surface of a planet or moon without damage to any portion of the vehicle or payload, except possibly the landing gear.


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economy is preparing for a soft landing instead of a crash.
Thursday's batch of earnings also helped investors digest a pair of government reports that suggested an economic soft landing might be harder to achieve.
Aside from negative changes to real estate tax policy and excessive interest rate hikes, real estate values should likely sustain (albeit slower) appreciation from these levels and perhaps stabilize for a term with a soft landing.
 
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