subs. (common).—1. A pause; a breach.
1888. Troy Daily Times. … It rained for three days, almost without a LET UP, after we reached our destination. Ibid. The stable hymn, as the boys called it, was sung in some companies where there was a little LET-UP on discipline.
1888. Spirit of the Times. There will be a LET UP of a few days, maybe a week, between the close of the Winter Meeting and the opening of the Spring Meeting.
2. (stock exchange).—A sudden disappearance of artificial causes of depression.
