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recession
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recession as in:  economic recession

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  • The Great Recession was now entering its third decade, and unemployment was still at a record high.  (source)
    Recession = a period when the economy does poorly
  • The valley had never recovered from the recession; people needed work.  (source)
    recession = a period when the economy is doing poorly
  • —projecting hundreds of millions of dollars of lost revenue for this holiday season, driving the economy even further into recession  (source)
    recession = a period when the economy does poorly
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  • The Great Recession, and the not-great recovery that followed, had hastened Middletown's downward trajectory.  (source)
    Recession = a period when the economy does poorly
  • You will note that during the years of seventy and seventy-one, when specific restraints in production were self-imposed-I repeat, self-imposed-by these leaders of industry, the resulting economic recession was far less severe than in-slide twelve, please-the so-called paternalistic regulation of the marketplace by government interventionists.†  (source)
  • His head, with deep recessions in the hairline now, seemed to have been baked in a slow oven.†  (source)
    recessions = periods when the economy does poorly
  • A national recession was under way, steel orders were reduced, and Coalwood was producing more coal than the steel company needed.†  (source)
    national recession = a period when the economy does poorly
  • We're in the middle of a bloody recession.  (source)
  • Even in the throes of an ongoing economic recession, the OASIS allowed Americans to continue engaging in their favorite pastime: shopping.†  (source)
  • The recession is supposed to be winding down, but no one seems to know that.  (source)
  • "Yes, through the economic recession, you see," said the old man, apparently unconcerned about whether Arthur understood a word he was talking about or not.†  (source)
  • But months after my 18th birthday, the recession hit, gas prices shot up, my savings withered and the reality of going nowhere fast hit me in the face.  (source)
  • Er, economic recession?†  (source)
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