recession

/ɹɪˈsɛʃn̩/

noun 5

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

bad, damaging, debilitating, deep, major, massive, painful, severe, sharp, steep

The country experienced a steep recession that forced many businesses to close their doors.

VERB + RECESSION

cause

go into, move into, plunge (sth) into, sink into, slip into

The country slipped into recession after the banks collapsed.

beat, combat

climb out of, come out of, emerge from, get (sth) out of, lead sth out of, move out of, pull (sth) out of

The government's new spending plan helped the economy climb out of recession within two years.

end | suffer from | escape (from)

ride out, survive

Several small businesses managed to survive the recession by cutting costs and adapting their services.

worsen

RECESSION + VERB

loom

The country's economy weakened as a recession loomed on the horizon.

hit sth

The global recession hit our family's business hard last year.

bottom out

PREP

in (a/the) ~

Many families struggled to find jobs while the country was in recession.

PHRASES

the depth of the recession, the effects/impact of the recession, in the depths of a recession, in times of recession, recovery from (the) recession, a way out of the recession

Definitions

noun

The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.

[…]that light may break forth from the deepest enclosures of darkness, and mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice, and grace may triumph upon the ruin of sin, and God may be glorified in the miracles of our conversion, and the wonders of our preservation and glories of our being saved.

A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.

Eastward in Bosnia, while the central European clime prevails, the thermic gradient does not follow the recession in the north latitude, but the elevation of the terrain.

Had this climate recession not occurred, the settlements might have provided the first real bridgehead into the continent of America, rather than being rediscovered by Columbus and later by Cabot.

A period of reduced economic activity.

Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.

In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.

The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.

The act of ceding something back.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of becoming more distant

receding

noun — the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to t

recessional

noun — a small concavity

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

W-shaped recession

An economic downturn where key indicators such as GDP and employment plummet sharply, briefly rebound, dip again, and then recover fully, forming a W pattern on a chart.

Example Bank

Wiktionary

Eastward in Bosnia, while the central European clime prevails, the thermic gradient does not follow the recession in the north latitude, but the elevation of the terrain.

Wiktionary

Had this climate recession not occurred, the settlements might have provided the first real bridgehead into the continent of America, rather than being rediscovered by Columbus and later by Cabot.

Wiktionary

Recession is a temporary falling off of business activity during a period when such activity is generally increasing.

Tatoeba · #29685

He argued that the new policy was bound to drive the economy into recession.

Tatoeba · #46109

The recovery of Japan's economy, which has been in a recession for some time, is finally under way.

Tatoeba · #53389

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