stress test

noun

Definition of stress test

: an electrocardiographic test of heart function before, during, and after a controlled period of increasingly strenuous exercise (as on a treadmill)

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The pitchers and catchers that are invited to spring training, show up, take the Mariners’ exhaustive and extensive physical — the vicious cardiac stress test is no longer used — and then go home for the day. — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, "A bright, sunny day in Arizona as Mariners pitchers and catchers report for spring training," 12 Feb. 2019 Mika requested a stress test, which monitors how hard your heart is working while running on treadmill. — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, "Doctors Kept Calling It Stress. Then I Learned I Had a 98% Blockage in My Heart.," 7 Feb. 2019 That doesn’t amount to much of a stress test, unfortunately. — Adi Robertson, The Verge, "You can buy a wearable camera to track your social life," 12 Dec. 2018 As the Fed noted on Thursday, the 35 banks in the stress test had more than $1.2 trillion of capital at the end of 2017, an increase of approximately $800 billion since 2009. — Peter Eavis, New York Times, "Wells Fargo Sailed Through Its Stress Test. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, Not So Much.," 29 June 2018 It couldn’t have withstood (regulatory stress tests). — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, "Ten years after the great panic, Jamie Dimon can take a victory lap," 31 July 2018 Meanwhile, the Fed is moving forward with a new proposal that would revamp the 'stress tests' banks face to periodically ensure that their assets are safe. — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, "The Finance 202: Boeing's stock was the best bellwether of a trade war. Until yesterday.," 25 Apr. 2018 The Ben Bernanke-Janet Yellen-Jerome Powell-Fed staff monetary experiment is only now facing its own stress test. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "Powell to Markets: Take That," 19 Dec. 2018 The Fed will release the results on Thursday of the second, and more consequential, round of its stress tests of the country’s big banks. — New York Times, "Court to Rule on Mandatory Union Fees, and U.S. May Restrict Chinese Investment," 24 June 2018

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