recession.
The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
Meaning & usage
The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
A period of reduced economic activity.
Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.
The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
The act of ceding something back.
A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin recessiō, from recēdō (“recede, retreat”), from re- (“back”) + cēdō (“to go”). By surface analysis, recess + -ion.
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