recession

Converse of object

• precipitate: Many people believe house prices started to fall sharply from 1989 onwards, precipitating recession.
• deepen: In Britain the job losses threatened in British shipbuilding yards are an even more tangible proof of a deepening recession.
• loom: These risks are only enhanced by the looming recession.
• suffer: In the early 1960s the country suffered an economic recession.

Adjective modifier

• supply-side: The bust in the property bubble fed into the supply-side recession.
• full-blown: But many others see a temporary and milder reaction and a narrow escape from full-blown recession.
• impending: BOC is concerned with a falling rate of profit in the conditions of the impending recession.
• glacial: A glacial recession has occurred during the 20 th century.
• outright: But it is doubtful if it can avoid at least some check to growth or even outright recession such circumstances.
• prolonged: Japan's prolonged recession has left Japan studies in a becalmed state.

Modifies a noun

• velocity: To find Hubble's constant we have to apply Hubble's law to objects whose distances and recession velocities are already known.

Noun used with modifier

• gingival: Researchers analyzed the case of a 26-year-old female who had localized gingival recession around the area of her lip piercing.
• gum: The sensitivity may be caused by a loose filling or by minimal gum recession which exposes small areas of the root surface.
• valve: The actual problem we have to consider is valve seat recession, which is where the valve sinks into the head.
• cliff: Cliffs increase slightly in height eastward and landsliding rather than rockfall becomes increasingly evident as the major cliff recession process.
• 1990s: The deficit shrunk in the early 1990s recession and during 3-4 years of exchange rate weakness between 1993-96.
• manufacturing: The figures show three consecutive quarters of falling manufacturing output, the manufacturing recession in Scotland.

Preposition: in

• 1990s: This marked the fifth monthly rise in a row and the longest upward run since the UK was in recession in the early 1990s.

Preposition: of

• 1990s: In 1992 the economy was only just emerging from the deep recession of the early 1990s.
• 1980s: There was a marked rise during the recession of the early 1980s.