See Also: Recession(medicine)
recession(dictionary)
recession(encyclopedia)
recession(dictionary)
Gum recession(health)
Recession(finance)
Recession(money)
RECESSION(law)
tendon recession(medicine)
gingival recession(medicine)

recession (iou)



recession noun. M17.
[Latin recessio(n-) from recess-: see RECESS, -ION.]
a. The action or an act of receding from a place or point; withdrawal; rare a setting or going back in time. M17.
b. The action or an act of departing from some state or standard. M17.
c. The departure of a quality or property from that in which it exists. M17.
d. Phonetics. The transference of accentuation towards or on to the first syllable of a word. L19.
A receding part of a surface or object. M18.
Economics. A temporary decline in economic activity or prosperity. E20.
recessionary adjective of, pertaining to, or characterized by economic recession M20.