0 the state of feeling very unhappy and without hope for the future:
1 a period in which there is very little business activity and not many jobs:
4 a feeling of sadness, or medical a type of mental illness that causes long periods of unhappiness:
6 a period in which there is very little business activity and little employment:
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.
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:
His wife's been hospitalized for depression.
The drugs, the divorce and the depression - it's an episode in his life that he wants to forget.
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