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recessionlike

recessionlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a financial recession.

Adjective

recessionlike (comparative more recessionlike, superlative most recessionlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a financial recession.
    • That's because even optimistic growth forecasts — about 1.5 percent for this quarter and next — are too tepid to counter recessionlike conditions in which job growth slows, unemployment rises and paychecks shrink or disappear.2007 December 29, “Cash-Strapped Consumers”, in New York Times

Forms of recessionlike

comparativemore recessionlike
superlativemost recessionlike

Origin of recessionlike

From recession + -like.

Questions about recessionlike

What does recessionlike mean?
Recessionlike means resembling or characteristic of a financial recession.
What part of speech is recessionlike?
Recessionlike is an adjective.

Words near recessionlike in the dictionary

  1. recessionary
  2. recessionist
  3. recessionista
  4. recessionistas
  5. recessionitis
  6. recessionlike
  7. recessionproof
  8. recessions
  9. recessive
  10. recessively
  11. recessiveness

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