0 to receive money from two places at the same time, sometimes in a way that is not legal
1 used for describing a period of time during which economic activity gets weaker, increases a little, and then gets weaker again:
a double-dip recession
3 a situation in which, if a company is sold, a shareholder has the right to receive both a particular price for their shares and money from the sale of the company’s assets
4 to receive income from two places, for example from a government pension while employed by the government, or from two different government pensions:
It is unfolding against the backdrop of a new currency war, caused by the risk of a double-dip recession, in the words of our economists.
In fact, the great danger is that it could lead to a double-dip recession.
I do not go along with the so-called double-dip recession which has been forecast by some people.
They are saying that the evidence of a double-dip recession is nowhere more apparent than in the north-east.
There is talk of a plunge down again— the so-called double-dip recession.
Standards committee members sometimes double-dip by selling books or classes on how to implement a standard; the more arbitrary the standard, the more market for these add-on products.