[
UK
/ɹɪsˈɛʃən/
]
[ US /ˌɹiˈsɛʃən, ɹɪˈsɛʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɹiˈsɛʃən, ɹɪˈsɛʃən/ ]
NOUN
- 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 state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
How To Use recession 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.
- 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
- Now the economy is teetering on the brink of recession, stocks are down sharply and the Fed has stated that rates will remain ultralow well into the future. Not Dead Yet: What to Do With Your Bets on Rising Rates
- It was the worst recession since the war.
- The recession is not going to go away overnight, especially in the most bombed out sectors such as construction and property.