recessionlike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a financial recession.

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Meanings

adjectiverecessionlike (comparative more recessionlike, superlative most recessionlike)

comparative more recessionlike · superlative most recessionlike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a financial recession.

    That's because even optimistic growth forecasts — about 1.5 percent for this quarter and next — are too tepid to counter recessionlike conditions in which job growth slows, unemployment rises and paychecks shrink or disappear.

    2007 December 29, “Cash-Strapped Consumers”, in New York Times

Origin

From recession + -like.

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APA

recessionlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recessionlike

MLA

“recessionlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recessionlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recessionlike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recessionlike.

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