recession
noun
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- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
Types & categories
- economic condition hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a small concavity
Types & categories
- incurvation hypernym
- pharyngeal recess hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
Types & categories
- procession hypernym
Related & opposite
- recessional derivation
Sense 4 noun
the act of ceding back
Types & categories
- cession hypernym
Related & opposite
- fall behind derivation
Sense 5 noun
the act of becoming more distant
Types & categories
- withdrawal hypernym
Related & opposite
- recede derivation
- fall behind derivation
- retreat derivation
- recessional derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | economic condition |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | recess |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | recess |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tree |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | incurvation |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | pharyngeal recess |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | recessional |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | procession |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | fall behind |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | cession |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | recede |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | fall behind |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | retreat |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | recessional |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | withdrawal |