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recession

/ri-sesh-uhn/US // rɪˈsɛʃ ən //UK // (rɪˈsɛʃən) //

衰退期,衰退,不景气,经济衰退

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of receding or withdrawing.
    • : a receding part of a wall, building, etc.
    • : a withdrawing procession, as at the end of a religious service.
    • : Economics. a period of an economic contraction, sometimes limited in scope or duration.Compare depression.

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Examples

  • Stay-at-home stocks continue to dominate the wider markets rally as investors bet the digital economy will power the broader economy out of recession.

  • In 2008, China and India did not slip into a recession — their economic growth merely slowed.

  • When people hear “degrowth,” they think that sounds like a recession.

  • Women — who have been hit harder than men during this recession — did see some substantial gains this month.

  • Low-income women of color are also among the likeliest to have lost their jobs in the current recession.

  • The state was in a deep recession as Duke galvanized a racial backlash.

  • The follow-up story is how those who survived both the competitive onslaught, as well as the recession, have adapted.

  • Following the pre-recession excess of T-Pain and Akon, hip-hop was in search of greater authenticity.

  • All of this contrasts markedly with pre-recession policies, especially what has come to be known as the “Beckham Law.”

  • During the recession net immigration to the U.S. from Mexico fell to zero or less.

  • Here the man broke off to assist in bringing the boat back from its recession with the current, at this point boisterously swift.

  • Where strata rest on exposed softer beds, these are undermined from the front, and in this way recession is brought about.

  • This was really on his part a recession from the extreme ground he had taken in the speech.

  • The inlet, therefore, will not be much extended beyond its present limit by the recession of the glacier.

  • As he sat smoking, the recession came, the reaction from weeks of nervous tension.