recession
B1CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The visible drawing-in of the skin between or below the ribs during breathing, indicating respiratory distress in a child.
There was marked subcostal and intercostal recession, showing she was struggling to breathe.
Business noun
A significant, broad-based decline in economic activity, conventionally marked by two consecutive quarters of falling output.
Firms froze hiring as the country slipped into its first recession in a decade.
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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