Definition for Recession:

• Retraction, the act of drawing away or retiring.

Synonyms for Recession:

• n.

  •
  • slowdown,
  • bankruptcy.
  •
  • rich.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • nonparticipation,
  • absention,
  • forbearance,
  • eschewal,
  • restraint,
  • runaround,
  • escapism,
  • steering clear of,
  • evasion,
  • elusion,
  • elusions.
  •ceding back (noun)
  • ceding back.
  •contraction (noun)
  • deflation,
  • elision,
  • decreasings,
  • drawing together,
  • lessening,
  • deflations,
  • elisions,
  • shrinking,
  • reducing,
  • tensing.
  •corner (noun)
  • corner.
  •decline (noun)
  • de-clines,
  • de-cay,
  • de volution,
  • de cline,
  • de-cline,
  • worsenings,
  • re lapse,
  • de-scent,
  • re-lapses,
  • de-cays,
  • de scents,
  • on skid,
  • de-volution,
  • de cays,
  • de-volutions,
  • devolutions,
  • dis-solution,
  • on skids,
  • de cay,
  • de generations,
  • dis solution,
  • dis-solutions,
  • weakenings,
  • de-scents,
  • de generation,
  • de-generation,
  • de-generations,
  • on the skid,
  • re lapses,
  • dis solutions,
  • de scent,
  • falling offs,
  • de clines,
  • de volutions,
  • re-lapse.
  •departure (noun)
  • walkout,
  • egression,
  • setting forth,
  • conge,
  • sailings,
  • egressions,
  • taking leave,
  • going away,
  • egress,
  • hegira,
  • embarkation,
  • vanishing act,
  • walkouts,
  • setting out.
  •depression (noun)
  • panic,
  • hard time,
  • unemployment,
  • bottom out,
  • overproduction,
  • retrenchment,
  • retrenchments,
  • stagflation,
  • hard times,
  • big trouble,
  • over-production,
  • paralysis,
  • Paralyses.
  •disappearance (noun)
  • Vanishment,
  • wearing away,
  • decline and fall,
  • ceasing to exist,
  • dematerialization,
  • disappearing act.
  •ebb (noun)
  • re-fluxes,
  • retro-cessions,
  • backflows,
  • retro-cession,
  • flaggings,
  • fading aways,
  • refluences,
  • retrofluxes,
  • going outs,
  • re flux,
  • re fluxes,
  • retrocessions,
  • retro cessions,
  • retro-flux,
  • retro-fluxes,
  • retro flux,
  • outward flows,
  • petering outs,
  • refluxes,
  • re-flux,
  • retro fluxes,
  • retro cession,
  • low waters.
  •economy (noun)
  • rollback,
  • niggardliness,
  • Parcity,
  • rollbacks,
  • miserliness,
  • prudence,
  • stinginess,
  • sparingness,
  • thriftiness.
  •fall (noun)
  • in cline,
  • downward slopes,
  • in-cline,
  • in-clines,
  • nose dives,
  • in clines.
  •receding (noun)
  • receding.
  •recess (noun)
  • recess.
  •recession (noun)
  • retreat,
  • niche.
  •regression (noun)
  • retrogression,
  • regression,
  • return,
  • Retrogradation,
  • backsliding.
  •relapse (noun)
  • recurrence.
  •retrogression (noun)
  • retro action,
  • retro-actions,
  • retro-action,
  • retro actions.
  •reversal of action; reduction of business activity (noun)
  • bust,
  • collapse,
  • bottom-out,
  • rainy days,
  • downturn,
  • bad times,
  • slide,
  • shakeout,
  • inflation,
  • stagnation.
  •slump (noun)
  • fallingoff,
  • bad periods,
  • downtrends,
  • re verse,
  • falling-offs,
  • re-verse,
  • the skid,
  • fallingoffs.
  •state (noun)
  • recession.
  •vanishment (noun)
  • fade-outs,
  • fade outs,
  • fadeouts.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • retirement.
  •commerce
  • economics.
  •removal
  • withdrawal.

Paraphrases for Recession:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    stagnation, slump.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    downturn, stagnation, slump.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    crisis.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    depression.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    depression.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    retrogression, regression, doldrums, slow-down, deterioration, meltdown, bust, regress, retreat, stalemate, degradation, contracting, standstill.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    slowdown, contraction, shrinkage, sluggishness, setback.

Antonyms for Recession:

• n.

  • reversal of action; reduction of business activity
    inflation, increase, rise, success, advance.
  • Other antonyms:
    growth, development, rally, recovery, boom.

Homophones for Recession:

• regimen, ruskin, regain, rough in, rejoin, reagin, rose wine, Rosh Hashanah, recission, raccoon, roughhewn, Rosh Hashana, rajanya, reawaken, ryukyuan, reign, resiny, re-assume, reason, rosin, reexamine, rescission, raw sienna, rich man, Rosa Canina, rogaine, reassign, risen, ricin, Reggane, rose gum, roughen, region, racine, rossini, resume, requiem, Riesman, raisin, racoon, raceme, regime, regina, resign, russian, reckon, reagan, rhizome, racon, resin, rousseauan, re-examine, rake in, racism, Rosh Hashonah, Rosh Hashona.

Hyponym for Recession:

• n.

  • state
    economic condition.