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recessionlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From recession + -like.

Meanings

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:

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