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Plural of recession

regular plural

The plural of recession is recessions.

Forms of recession

Singularrecession /ɹɪˈsɛʃn̩/
Pluralrecessions
Countablecountable and uncountable

Recessions in a sentence

  • In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.2009 January 3, Amy Zipkin, “Drugstores, Too, Feel Recession Pain”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
  • He called twelve of the last three recessions.From the entry call
  • In order to achieve these goals, muscle recessions followed by retroequatorial myopexias are usually used.2011, George L. Spaeth, Helen Danesh-Meyer, Ivan Goldberg, Ophthalmic Surgery: Principles and Practice E-Book, page 438. From the entry retroequatorial
  • That’s because, historically, recessions have often wreaked havoc on stock portfolios.2007 December 9, Paul J. Lim, “The ‘R’ Word Doesn’t Have to Be So Scary”, in The New York Times. From the entry r-word
  • "If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions.2002, Financial Management. From the entry father

Meaning of recession

  1. noun The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
  2. noun A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
  3. noun A period of reduced economic activity.

Full definition of recession

Questions about the plural of recession

What is the plural of recession?
The plural of recession is recessions.
Is recession countable?
Recession is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recession (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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