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depression

10 definitions • 16 examples
1
a mental illness in which a person is very unhappy and anxious (= worried and nervous) for long periods and often feels no interest in anything:

Examples:

Tiredness, loss of appetite, and sleeping problems are all classic symptoms of depression.
suffer from depression If you suffer from depression, it's best to get professional help.
2
the state of feeling very unhappy and without hope for the future:

Examples:

I was overwhelmed by feelings of depression.
3
a period in which there is very little business activity and not many jobs:

Examples:

The stock market crash marked the start of a severe depression.
4
an area where the air pressure is low:

Examples:

depression over The deep depression over the mid-Atlantic will gradually move eastwards during the day.
5
part of a surface that is slightly lower than the rest:

Examples:

There was a depression in the sand where he'd been lying.
6

Examples:

I’m just beginning to get over the depression from losing my job.
medical Tiredness, loss of appetite, and sleeping problems are symptoms of depression.
7
a part in a surface that is slightly lower than the rest:

Examples:

There was a depression in the sand where he’d been lying.
8
a period in which there is very little business activity and little employment:

Examples:

My parents lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s.
9
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:

Examples:

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.
This was a period of deep depression.
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.
10
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:

Examples:

The Federal Home Loan Bank system was created in the 1930s by the federal government to stimulate lending during the Depression.

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