Recession

Quick meaning: Recession is a noun meaning The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.

Meaning

The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.

More Meanings

1. A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
2. (economics) A period of reduced economic activity.
3. The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
4. The act of ceding something back.
5. (surgery) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• recessions

Synonyms for recession

Depending on context, synonyms include withdrawal, corner, receding, niche, recess.

Antonyms for recession

Common opposites include boom.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include recess, receding, corner, niche, economy, regression.

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