"recession" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "recession",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "recessions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "re‧ces‧sion",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Spending is one reason that economists are increasingly worried about the economy moving into a recession."
        },
        {
          "text": "In the early 1980s, the economy was in a deep recession and interest rates were two to four times as high as they are today."
        },
        {
          "text": "It's difficult to get any work during this recession."
        },
        {
          "text": "The government is trying to help those who are hard hit by the recession."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A recession is a time when there is less economic activity."
      ],
      "id": "simple-recession-en-noun-wrRFe6mK",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "depression"
        },
        {
          "word": "decline"
        },
        {
          "word": "collapse"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/rɪˈsɛʃn̩/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recession.wav",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "recession"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "recession",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "recessions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "re‧ces‧sion",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Spending is one reason that economists are increasingly worried about the economy moving into a recession."
        },
        {
          "text": "In the early 1980s, the economy was in a deep recession and interest rates were two to four times as high as they are today."
        },
        {
          "text": "It's difficult to get any work during this recession."
        },
        {
          "text": "The government is trying to help those who are hard hit by the recession."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A recession is a time when there is less economic activity."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "depression"
        },
        {
          "word": "decline"
        },
        {
          "word": "collapse"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/rɪˈsɛʃn̩/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recession.wav",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "recession"
}