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n. The act of withdrawing or going back.

n. An extended decline in general business activity, typically two consecutive quarters of falling real gross national product.

n. The withdrawal in a line or file of participants in a ceremony, especially clerics and choir members after a church service.

n. Law The act of restoring possession to a former owner.

n. The act or an instance of receding

n. A period of reduced economic activity

n. The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.

n. The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.

n. A period during which economic activity, as measured by gross domestic product, declines for at least two quarters in a row in a specific country. If the decline is severe and long, such as greater than ten percent, it may be termed a depression.

n. A procession in which people leave a ceremony, such as at a religious service.

n. The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession.

n. The act of receding or going back; withdrawal; retirement, as from a position reached or from a demand made.

n. The state of being put back; a position relatively withdrawn.

n. A cession or granting back; retrocession: as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.

n. the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service

n. the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year

n. a small concavity

n. the act of becoming more distant

n. the act of ceding back

"BLOOMBERG: Whether the term recession, which is a technical term, will be appropriate, I have no idea, but the country is in a-- has some very serious economic problems."

depression    progress    advanced    boom   

procession    economic condition    withdrawal    cession    ceding   

retreat    angle of recession   

recessionary   

restoration    withdrawal    retirement    retiral    regression    regress    retrocession    retreat    retrogression    recess   

Hessian    accession    aggression    compression    concession    confession    decompression    depression    digression    discretion   

downturn    inflation    decline    deflation    collapse    slump    depression    crisis    meltdown    unemployment