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Noun: plateau (plateaux,plateaus)  pla'tow or 'pla,tow [N. Amer], pla-tow [Brit]
  1. A relatively flat highland
    "The expedition set up camp on the expansive plateau";
    - tableland
Verb: plateau (plateaued,plateauing)  pla'tow or 'pla,tow [N. Amer], pla-tow [Brit]
  1. Level out, reach a stable state of little change
    "After rapid growth, the company's profits began to plateau"

Derived forms: plateaux, plateaus, plateaued, plateauing

Type of: highland, upland

Encyclopedia: Plateau, Joseph-Antoine