Recession



GRE Barron TOEFL

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 衰退时期, 萧条时期
• ［英］ n. 衰退时期, 萧条时期 ( a period of reduced economic activity)
• ［例］ an economic recession

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Date: circa 1652
• 1. the act or action of receding ; withdrawal
• 2. a departing procession (as of clergy and choir at the end of a church service)
• 3. a period of reduced economic activity
• ? recessionary adjective

II. noun

• Etymology: re- + cession
• Date: 1828
• the act of ceding back to a former possessor

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