Recession........

Definitions of recession on the Web:

• the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
• recess: 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
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• In economics, a recession is a general slowdown in economic activity over a sustained period of time, or a business cycle contraction. ...
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• The Recession is the third major studio album by rapper Young Jeezy and his fifth overall, released on September 2, 2008.
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• recessional - of or relating to receding
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• Recessional - "Recessional" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, which he composed on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The poem expresses pride in the British Empire, but also an underlying sadness that the Empire might go the way of all previous empires. ...
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• recessional - Music played during a church recession
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• A period of general economic decline, part of the usual business cycle.
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• A phase of the business cycle extending from a peak to the next trough and characterized by a substantial decline in overall business activity--output, income, employment, and trade--of at least several months' duration. ...
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• Two consecutive quarters of declining GDP.
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• A significant decline in general economic activity extending over a period of time.
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• A significant decline in activity spread across the economy, lasting longer than a few months. It is visible in industrial production, employment ...
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• Business cycle phase of a deteriorating economy, which results in less business and consumer spending and depression of real estate prices. Specifically defined as two consecutive quarters with negative economic growth.
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