Does using "plateau" to express "remained constant" in the sentence below make sense?
Their salary plateaued for 3 years.
Does using "plateau" to express "remained constant" in the sentence below make sense?
Their salary plateaued for 3 years.
Plateau: (intransitive verb)
- to reach a level, period, or condition of stability or maximum attainment
(M-W)
Usage examples:
The 2016 paper in Nature found that the maximum reported age of death increased until the mid-1990s, then plateaued.
Morningstar’s Hottovy thinks that the market for new members may be plateauing, and that Amazon is now focused on increasing what current Prime users spend rather than recruiting new ones.