[
US
/ˈɹisɛs, ɹɪˈsɛs/
]
NOUN
- a small concavity
- an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- a state of abeyance or suspended business
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
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a pause from doing something (as work)
we took a 10-minute break
he took time out to recuperate
VERB
-
make a recess in
recess the piece of wood -
put into a recess
recess lights -
close at the end of a session
The court adjourned
How To Use recess In A Sentence
- The recession blindsided a lot of lawyers who had previously taken for granted their comfortable income.
- Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
- Tranmere played with a good deal more enthusiasm as the evening wore on, suggesting that Aldridge had expressed - presumably in an indelicate fashion - his sense of displeasure during the recess.
- Small businesses have been hit hard / hard hit by the recession.
- The recession shows no signs of easing in the immediate future.
- If we want to avert a very deep recession it is absolutely vital that these psychological factors are reversed.
- Nixon came up with the phrase 'growth recession': even when things are not falling, it's not going to feel good. So what do we do now, chancellor?
- It's one of America's least "churched" cities, but the religious community fashioned Neighbors in Need as a response to the 1970's Boeing recession. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
- Her favorite things at school are music and recess.
- The guest bedroom with a deep, recessed window to the front also benefits from en suite facilities and a fitted wardrobe.