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Great Depression en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (historical) A major economic collapse characterized by mass unemployment and limited business activity that lasted from 1929 to 1940 in the US and a similar period in many other countries.
    • For the first time since the Great Depression, median family income has fallen substantially over an entire decade. Income grew slowly through most of the last decade, except at the top of the distribution, before falling sharply when the financial crisis began. 2012 October 24, David Leonhardt, “Standard of Living Is in the Shadows as Election Issue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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Relateds

Great Recession · Great Crash

Translations (27)

ja 世界恐慌 (economic collapse) · kk Ұлы тоқырау (economic collapse) · el Μεγάλη Ύφεση (economic collapse) · tl Malawakang Depresyon (economic collapse) · is Kreppan mikla (economic collapse) · ko 대공황 (economic collapse) · es Gran Depresión (economic collapse) · vi Đại khủng hoảng (economic collapse) · pl wielki kryzys (economic collapse) · cmn 大蕭條 /大萧条 (economic collapse) · da Store Depression (economic collapse) · ca Gran Depressió (economic collapse) · de Weltwirtschaftskrise (economic collapse) · da depressionen i trediverne (economic collapse) · hi महामंदी (economic collapse) · cy Dirwasgiad Mawr (economic collapse) · id Depresi Besar (economic collapse) · ar الْكَسَاد الْعَظِيم (economic collapse) · dsb kriza swětowego góspodaŕstwa (economic collapse) · hsb swětowa hospodarska kriza (economic collapse) · fr Grande Dépression (economic collapse) · ja 大恐慌 (economic collapse) · ru Вели́кая депре́ссия (economic collapse) · fi suuri lama (economic collapse) · hu nagy gazdasági világválság (economic collapse) · da Depressionen (economic collapse) · pt Grande Depressão (economic collapse)

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