Great Depression

noun

the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.

Depression, Great

The great slowdown in the American economy, the worst in the country's history, which began in 1929 and lasted until the early 1940s. Many banks and businesses failed, and millions of people lost their jobs. ( See Dust Bowl ; fireside chats ; Hoovervilles ; New Deal ; Okies; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; and stock market Crash of 1929 .)

These are disparities not seen since before the Great Depression.

The result would give Democrats their smallest House caucus since before the Great Depression.

One month later to the day, the stock market crash of Black Tuesday signaled the start of the Great Depression.

All this, of course, is in Of Mice and Men, a story of migrant workers during the great depression.

“The Great Depression” as a proper noun only came into popular use in the 1950s, long after the event was over.

In this state of intense anxiety and great depression, she returned to her town residence.

Samarra is very ancient, and has passed through periods of great depression and equally great expansion.

It is worth while to record my great depression of spirits, that I may remember one more resurrection from the pit of melancholy.

The Caspian lies in the centre of a great depression, being 83 feet below the level of the Sea of Azov.

As this state of mind continued, he finally arose and bid his friends good-night with a feeling of great depression.

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