depression Значение & определение

Значение на depression на български

• 0 the state of feeling very unhappy and without hope for the future:

  • I was overwhelmed by feelings of depression.

  • Tiredness, loss of appetite, and sleeping problems are all classic symptoms of depression.

  • If you suffer from depression, it's best to get professional help.

• 1 a period in which there is very little business activity and not many jobs:

  • The stock market crash marked the start of a severe depression.

• 2 an area where the air pressure is low:

  • The deep depression over the mid-Atlantic will gradually move eastwards during the day.

• 3 part of a surface that is slightly lower than the rest:

  • There was a depression in the sand where he'd been lying.

• 4 a feeling of sadness, or medical a type of mental illness that causes long periods of unhappiness:

  • I’m just beginning to get over the depression from losing my job.

  • medical Tiredness, loss of appetite, and sleeping problems are symptoms of depression.

• 5 a part in a surface that is slightly lower than the rest:

  • There was a depression in the sand where he’d been lying.

• 6 a period in which there is very little business activity and little employment:

  • My parents lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s.

• 7 a recession (= time of low economic activity, when investments lose value, businesses fail and people lose their jobs) that lasts for a long period of time, usually several years:

  • plunge/slide into depression The Thirties saw the world plunge into depression.

  • The Wall Street Crash of 1929 brought severe economic depression and hardship to Canada.

  • This was a period of deep depression.

  • For most of the 20th century, economists focused on understanding and controlling inflation and depressions.

  • New mines are being developed and old mines reopened, lifting communities across Northern Nevada out of the depression left by the industry's last crash.

• 8 the period in the years after 1929 until the middle of the 1930s, or, in some cases, the 1940s, when there was a very low level of economic activity in the US, Europe, and many other countries. Many people lost their jobs and were very poor:

  • The Federal Home Loan Bank system was created in the 1930s by the federal government to stimulate lending during the Depression.