English Dictionary

Great Recession

固有名詞

The worldwide general economic decline towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century.

日本語の意味

21世紀初頭末期に起こった、世界的な経済の一般的な衰退・景気後退

Many families had to postpone major life decisions during the Great Recession, as job losses and falling home values made long-term planning difficult.

多くの家族は、2000年代後半の世界的な景気後退の間、失業や住宅価格の下落で長期的な計画が難しくなり、重要な人生の決断を先延ばしにせざるを得ませんでした。

意味（1）

The worldwide general economic decline towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century.

Income inequality usually shrinks during a recession, but in the Great Recession, it didn’t. From 2007 to 2009, the most-recent years for which data are available, it widened a little. […] It’s hard to miss just how unevenly the Great Recession has affected different classes of people in different places.

the Great Recession （ canonical ）