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# recession

«recession» in Mova's school dictionary: **A time when a country's businesses do badly, many people…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a recession, recessions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A time when a country's businesses do badly, many people lose jobs and spending falls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recession/#m1)

2) (formal) The act of moving back or away, like a tide or a glacier going back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recession/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In news and social studies it is about the economy: in a recession, shops close and money is tight. In geography and science, the recession of a glacier means it is shrinking back. Phrases: in a recession, a deep recession, the recession hit.

### examples

- Many people lost their jobs in the recession. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recession/#x1)
- Dad's shop struggled during the recession. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recession/#x2)
- The country slowly came out of recession. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recession/#x3)
- Prices stayed the same during the recession. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recession/#x4)
- Scientists measured the recession of the glacier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recession/#x5)
- People saved more money because of the recession. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recession/#x6)

### note

Countable. A depression is a very long and deep recession. The verb is recede (go back). Do not confuse with recess (a break, especially a school break in the US).

### In the corpora

- ["Soft landing" means a slowdown that avoids a full recession.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recession» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recession/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.