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Noun recession has 5 senses
- recession - the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
--1 is a kind of financial condition, economic condition
- recess, recession, niche, corner - a small concavity
--2 is a kind of concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
--2 has particulars: pharyngeal recess
- recession, recessional - the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
--3 is a kind of procession
- recession, ceding back - the act of ceding back
--4 is a kind of cession, ceding
- receding, recession - the act of becoming more distant
--5 is a kind of withdrawal
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