recession

CEFRC1

/ɹɪˈsɛʃn̩/

noun

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01
noun
A period when a country's economy becomes weaker.
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noun
Extra detail
A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.

Examples

He argued that the new policy was bound to drive the economy into recession.
How do you assess the impact of the current recession on manufacturing?

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 2

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noun

Extra meanings

The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
A period of reduced economic activity.
The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.

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This increase in unemployment is a consequence of the recession.
Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.
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.

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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.
1955, A History of the Croatian People from Their Arrival on the Shores of the Adriatic to the Present Day, page 4
[…]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. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, “Of Growth in Sin”, in The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, new edition, volume IV, London: Longman et al., published 1850, page 520
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.
2004, Wayne Kenneth David Davies, Writing Geographical Exploration, page 96
The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.
2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209
In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.
2009 January 3, Amy Zipkin, “Drugstores, Too, Feel Recession Pain”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Latin recessiō, from recēdō (“recede, retreat”), from re- (“back”) + cēdō (“to go”). By surface analysis, recess + -ion.

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noun

During the economic blank, the country faced high unemployment and low spending.