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financial crisis

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables
fi-nan-cial cri-sis
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An episode of sharp instability in the global or a local financial system in which financial assets lose a significant proportion of their value, often caused by the bursting of an economic bubble.

Inflected Forms

financial crises (plural)

Phrases

bank run economic crisis

Frequently Paired Words

bank run bubble economic crisis recession

Questions

What does financial crisis mean?
An episode of sharp instability in the global or a local financial system in which financial assets lose a significant proportion of their value, often caused by the bursting of an economic bubble.

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