{
    "term": "recession",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a difficult time for the economy of a country, when there is less trade and industrial activity than usual and more people are unemployed",
            "sensetop": "in recession",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "How do you assess the impact of the current recession on manufacturing?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The economy is in deep recession.",
                    "contextForm": "in recession"
                },
                {
                    "text": "policies to pull the country out of recession"
                },
                {
                    "text": "These industries have been hard hit by recession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As dozens of companies go out of business, others are riding out the recession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Germany was suffering a steep recession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was the worst recession since the war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country has been hit by recession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These reforms will only deepen the recession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "With a recession looming, consumers are spending less."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the movement backwards of something from a previous position",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the gradual recession of the floodwater"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈseʃn/",
                "audio": "re/recession/recession__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈseʃn/",
                "audio": "re/recession/recession__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from Latin recessio(n-), from recess- ‘gone back’, from the verb recedere ‘go back’, from re- ‘back’ + cedere ‘go’."
}