recession

Meanings

Plural: recessions

Noun

• the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
• a small concavity
• the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
• the act of ceding back
• the act of becoming more distant
• The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
• A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
• A period of reduced economic activity
• The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
• The act of ceding something back.
• A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.

Synonyms

ceding back, corner, niche, receding, recess, recessional, return procession, withdrawal

Antonyms

boom