recession

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
2. (countable, uncountable) A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
3. (countable, uncountable) A period of reduced economic activity
4. (countable, uncountable) The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
5. (countable, uncountable) The act of ceding something back.
6. (countable, uncountable) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.

Opposite of

boom

Synonyms

slump

depression

decline

regression

recess

retreat

abatement

withdrawal

receding

recoil

downturn

economic recession

contraction

niche

slums

retirement

corner

downswing

setback

ceding back

collapse

fallback

recessional

flop

lama

loss

non-event

outflow

overthrow

pocket

pothole

precipitation

retrogression

return

revulsion

sally

scoop

slowdown

subsidence

wane

wither

dead astern

stormy weather

business recession

poor turn-out

stepping back

backstep

reliction

retrogradation

retropulsion

Translations

récession

recessione

Rezession

recesión

recessão

ύφεση

recessió

recessie

resesyon

πτώση

υποχώρηση

Depression

ritiro

arretramento

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈsɛʃn̩/

Etymology

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