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recession
/ɹɪˈsɛʃən/
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What does recession mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (3)
noun
- 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.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈsɛʃən/
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After puberty maturity is reached by easy stages, and then comes involution or the recession of sex characters.
Malaysia's high export dependence leaves it vulnerable to a recession in the OECD countries or a fall in world commodity prices.
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We shall see later on how the Western world made a curious recession from this seemingly secure position under stimulus of an Oriental misconception.
There is not more retrogradation, trepidation, accession, recession, and astonishment, in the stars and celestial bodies, than they have found out in this poor little human body.
Allport reports the history of a case in which there was recession of the gingival margins and alveolar processes, the consequence of amenorrhea.