SkyfireDict

recession   (TTS Sound)

The noun recession has 5 senses

• recession -- (the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year)


• recess, recession, niche, corner -- (a small concavity)


• recession, recessional -- (the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service)


• recession, ceding back -- (the act of ceding back)


• receding, recession -- (the act of becoming more distant)