recessions
- 1Plural of recession.
Economists compared the two recessions to see which caused more lasting damage.
Severe recessions often push unemployment to double digits before recovery begins.
Note
Counting occurrences is what the plural does, and it serves every meaning of recession, not just the economic one. Each meaning works as a mass noun for the general process and as a count noun for single episodes. So besides downturns, a surgeon can count recessions performed on an eye muscle, and a church choir's ceremonial filing out after successive services makes recessions too.
recessions is a form of recession
recession, noun: A period during which a country's economic activity declines, typically with falling production, trade, and employment. Full entry
- Forms
- recessionrecessions plural
- Spelling
- recession → recessions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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