downturn
B1CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
A period during which economic or business activity weakens and declines.
We built up a cash buffer to help the business ride out any prolonged downturn.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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