recession

Other forms of recession

plural

recessions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about recession

What does recession mean?

recession means "the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recession?

recession has 3 syllables: re-ces-sion. The stress falls on "ces". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈsɛʃən/.

What is another word for recession?

Close synonyms include recess, niche, corner, recessional, ceding back. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is recession a common word?

recession is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with recession?

9 words rhyme with recession. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.