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re⋅ces⋅sion⋅ar⋅y

  [ri-sesh-uh-ner-ee]
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–adjective
of, pertaining to, or causing recession, esp. economic recession: recessionary market pressures.
Origin:
1955–60; recession + -ary
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re·ces·sion 1   (rĭ-sěsh'ən)   
n.  

  1. The act of withdrawing or going back.

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

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


[Latin recessiō, recessiōn-, from recessus, past participle of recēdere, to recede; see recede1.]
re·ces'sion·ar'y adj.
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