great depression
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A major economic collapse characterized by mass unemployment and limited business activity that lasted from 1929 to 1940 in the US and a similar period in many other countries.
Example Sentences
- "For the first time since the Great Depression, median family income has fallen substantially over an entire decade. Income grew slowly through most of the last decade, except at the top of the distribution, before falling sharply when the financial crisis began."
Inflected Forms
the Great Depression (canonical)
Phrases
Great Crash
Great Recession
Frequently Paired Words
Great Crash
Great Recession