# recession

Pronunciation: US say "ri-SESH-uhn" /ɹɪˈsɛʃn̩/; UK

## Noun

1. A period during which a country's economic activity declines, typically with falling production, trade, and employment.
   - Simple: A time when business slows down across a country and many people lose their jobs.
   - _Economists declared a recession after output shrank for two consecutive quarters._
   - _Central banks often cut interest rates to soften the impact of a recession._
2. The act or process of receding or withdrawing from a previous position.
   - Simple: The act of moving back or pulling away from something.
   - _The recession of the glacier exposed rock that had been buried for centuries._
   - _The dentist measured the recession of the gums around several teeth._
3. The ceremonial procession of clergy and choir out of the church at the close of a service.
   - Simple: The slow walk of the clergy and choir out of the church at the end of a service.
   - _The organist played a triumphant voluntary to accompany the recession._
   - _As the recession began, the congregation joined in the closing hymn._
4. The act of ceding or granting something back to a previous holder or owner.
   - Simple: The act of giving something back to the person or country it came from.
   - _The settlement provided for the recession of the territory to its original government._
   - _The contract called for the recession of the leased rights once the term expired._
5. A period of sustained low temperatures that drives a reduction in living species; an ice age.
   - Simple: A long, cold time that kills off many kinds of plants and animals, like an ice age.
   - _The recession brought glaciers south and forced cold-adapted species into shrinking refuges._
   - _Paleontologists link the mass die-off to a prolonged climatic recession._
6. A surgical procedure in which an eye muscle is detached and reattached farther back on the eyeball to reduce its pull.
   - Simple: An eye operation that moves one of the muscles that turn the eye farther back to weaken its pull.
   - _The ophthalmologist recommended a recession of the lateral rectus muscle._
   - _A bilateral recession can realign eyes that turn inward._

## Origin

Borrowed from Latin recessio, from recedo ("to recede, retreat"), which combines re- ("back") and cedo ("to go").

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