current recession
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcurrentandrecession
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current
adjective
uk/ˈkʌr.ənt/us/ˈkɝː.ənt/
of the ...
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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 ofcurrentandrecessionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The analysis finds companies must be adopting one of the four views on thecurrentrecessiondebate.
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However, it is now faced with problems in the short term as a result of thecurrentrecession.
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I believe that this is a false, though understandable, reaction of industry to thecurrentrecession.
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Thecurrentrecessionhas produced a rapid rise in unemployment in all the industrialised countries.
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They have nothing to do with thecurrentrecessionin shipbuilding.
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Many of these people are owner-occupiers, the elderly or the less well-off, who are the victims of thecurrentrecession.
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If we develop our steel industry, particularly during thecurrentrecession, there is bound to be over-production.
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Many started as small businesses, with their founders putting capital and security at risk, and many have suffered hard in thecurrentrecession.
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One of the many sad results of thecurrentrecessionis that the division in our society has been sharpened, especially among young people.
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Thecurrentrecessionmay create some slight delay to that trend.
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I am thinking about the coal miner, the steelworker or the electrician who has been made redundant during thecurrentrecession.
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During thecurrentrecessionlocal pressures sometimes develop which have the effect of giving unem- ployed time-served men preference over newly trained people.
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Thecurrentrecessionhas heralded the onset of general unemployment.
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That is particularly true of thecurrentrecession.
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In the mid-1980s the capital experienced a boom but it has also experienced the ravages of thecurrentrecession.
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The decline of total consumer expenditure in thecurrentrecessionis average in comparison with that seen in previous major post-war recessions.
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Even during thecurrentrecession, however, there have been some good signs.
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Many small businesses have weathered thecurrentrecessionwith great difficulty, but with resilience.
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In thecurrentrecession, the closures and the loss of jobs have continued.
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In many ways families have never recovered from the earlier recession of the 1980s, let alone thecurrentrecession.
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