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recessionary

recessionary adjective: of or relating to a recession.

Adjective

recessionary (comparative more recessionary, superlative most recessionary)

  1. Of or relating to a recession.
    • This article develops the idea of resilience and examines its usefulness as an aid to understanding the reaction of regional economies to major recessionary shocks.2012, Ron Martin, Regional economic resilience, hysteresis and recessionary shocks, in: Journal of Economic Geography Volume 12(1), January 2012, pp. 1–32

Forms of recessionary

comparativemore recessionary
superlativemost recessionary

Origin of recessionary

From recession + -ary.

Words formed from recessionary

Questions about recessionary

What does recessionary mean?
Recessionary means of or relating to a recession.
What part of speech is recessionary?
Recessionary is an adjective.

Words near recessionary in the dictionary

  1. recession hair
  2. recession pop
  3. recessional
  4. recessionals
  5. recessionarily
  6. recessionary
  7. recessionist
  8. recessionista
  9. recessionistas
  10. recessionitis
  11. recessionlike

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