prolonged recession
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprolongedandrecession
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prolonged
adjective
uk/prəˈlɒŋd/us/prəˈlɑːŋd/
continuing for a ...
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recession
noun[C or U]
uk/rɪˈseʃ.ən/us/rɪˈseʃ.ən/
a period when the economy of a country is not successful and conditions for business ...
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(Definition ofprolongedandrecessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, a deep and short recession is much to be preferred to a modest butprolongedrecession.
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Low income families with children have suffered more than any other families during theprolongedrecession.
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He was justified in saying that the machine tool industry had suffered a serious andprolongedrecession.
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The foundry industry is currently suffering from aprolongedrecessionin demand from user industries, which has reduced the profitability of the sector.
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Our borrowing was increasing by too much as a result of theprolongedrecession, which was experienced, to varying degrees, by all western countries.
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The effects of such aprolongedrecessionare bound to put a strain on any industry's resources.
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The consequences of a phoney stimulus would be just as damaging for our economy as aprolongedrecession.
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The retail sector is feeling the effects of aprolongedrecession.
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Everybody knows that the trading world—our major customers—has been experiencing a significant andprolongedrecession.
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By doing so, they will avoid the risk of an even deeper recession at home andprolongedrecessionthroughout the world.
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Is he worried that it has taken such a deep andprolongedrecessionto reduce inflation to its current level?
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There has been a deep andprolongedrecessionin the industry.
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Clearly, we have suffered aprolongedrecession, and we fully recognise the very real social problems it has caused.
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We are in a situation of deep andprolongedrecession, and that situation is deteriorating.
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In addition, the retail sector is feeling the effects of theprolongedrecessionto a greater degree than perhaps any other industry, save the construction industry.
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However, is she aware that in our constituencies people are concerned about the plight of people over 18, and over 21, who face unemployment in this dreadful andprolongedrecession?
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That does not get the industry out of all its difficulties, of course, because there will be residual debts from theprolongedrecessionin the sector.
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In aprolongedrecession, business approaches that were effective during healthy economies often become ineffective and it becomes necessary to change a firm's positioning.
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The country was experiencing aprolongedrecessionin the second half of 1983.
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