recession
The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
Other meanings
A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
A period of reduced economic activity.
“Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.”
Related words
- antirecession
- mancession
- megarecession
- minirecession
- nonrecession
- pancession
- postrecession
- prerecession
- recessional
- recessionist
- recessionitis
- recessionlike
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "recessiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “recession” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.