recession

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A period when a country's economy is weak and business activity falls.

   Many people lost their jobs during the recession.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of moving back or becoming more distant.

   The recession of the floodwaters revealed the damage below.

Borrowed from Latin recessiō, from recēdō (“recede, retreat”), from re- (“back”) + cēdō (“to go”). By surface analysis, recess + -ion.

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