recession
/ɹɪˈsɛʃn̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[…]that light may break forth from the deepest enclosures of darkness, and mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice, and grace may triumph upon the ruin of sin, and God may be glorified in the miracles of our conversion, and the wonders of our preservation and glories of our being saved."
- "Eastward in Bosnia, while the central European clime prevails, the thermic gradient does not follow the recession in the north latitude, but the elevation of the terrain."
- "Had this climate recession not occurred, the settlements might have provided the first real bridgehead into the continent of America, rather than being rediscovered by Columbus and later by Cabot."
- "The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial."
- "Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters."
- "In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown."